. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. a b Fig. 75. Temple and sun symbol, from the Borgian codex. clothed in eagle array, he and a god with an alligator mask, togetherwith the descending Quetzalcoatl, are bringing down from theheavens the houses of the day and the night, Night is here repre-sented (see &, figure 73) by a head with closed eyes. This representa- selek] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 311 tion is one which can unquestionably be compared with the represen-tations of day and night among the so-called celestial shields of the Maya manuscripts, and
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. a b Fig. 75. Temple and sun symbol, from the Borgian codex. clothed in eagle array, he and a god with an alligator mask, togetherwith the descending Quetzalcoatl, are bringing down from theheavens the houses of the day and the night, Night is here repre-sented (see &, figure 73) by a head with closed eyes. This representa- selek] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 311 tion is one which can unquestionably be compared with the represen-tations of day and night among the so-called celestial shields of the Maya manuscripts, and it proves that T was entirely in the right when1 pronounced this sign of the night in the Maya manuscripts, which isat the same time the hieroglyph for the numeral 20. to be a head withemptv. bleeding eye sockets The entire picture in figure 73 appearsto be a remarkable parallel to a, figure 74. from the Dresden manu-script, which was interpreted by Forstemann as the descent of Venus.
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