. Bulletin. Ethnology. seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 291 paiiioii, at the third day sign Calli, " house '' (or Zapotec Ehi, Maya Akbal, ''night"), is the earth goddess alone expressed by the hiero- glypli of her name Thielquani, " dirt eater ", namely, by the picture of a man eating his oAvn excrement, with the symbol of the moon (fig- ure Go),. Fio. <J4. Tepeyollotl and Tlacolteotl, Mexican deities, from the Borgian codex. This god of the third calendar section is named Tepeolotlec by the interpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. This is evidentl}' only a


. Bulletin. Ethnology. seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 291 paiiioii, at the third day sign Calli, " house '' (or Zapotec Ehi, Maya Akbal, ''night"), is the earth goddess alone expressed by the hiero- glypli of her name Thielquani, " dirt eater ", namely, by the picture of a man eating his oAvn excrement, with the symbol of the moon (fig- ure Go),. Fio. <J4. Tepeyollotl and Tlacolteotl, Mexican deities, from the Borgian codex. This god of the third calendar section is named Tepeolotlec by the interpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. This is evidentl}' only a distortion of Tepe^'ollotl, ""heart of the mountain (of the place, village, country)'', who was named as the eighth of the series of the nine lords, the so-called '' acompanados de la noche ", and who (Bor-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.


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