The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . STATUE OF FOUND AT CHICHEN-ITZA. god Tlaloc, according to Mr. Hamy, whose view I take. Thisview receives additional probability from the existence of a thirdstatue, which was found I know not where, and which is theproperty of Mr. Baron of Mexico, who bought it among severalother Aztec antiquities, and had it placed in his beautiful gardenat Tacubaya, whence it has, I suppose, been removed to statue, says Jesus Sanchez, *Ms smaller than the other two,measuring
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . STATUE OF FOUND AT CHICHEN-ITZA. god Tlaloc, according to Mr. Hamy, whose view I take. Thisview receives additional probability from the existence of a thirdstatue, which was found I know not where, and which is theproperty of Mr. Baron of Mexico, who bought it among severalother Aztec antiquities, and had it placed in his beautiful gardenat Tacubaya, whence it has, I suppose, been removed to statue, says Jesus Sanchez, *Ms smaller than the other two,measuring but 3 feet by i foot 7 inches by 2 feet high. Italso represents a man lying on his back, his legs drawn up, his Ciiiciii:n-Itza. 367 feet on the ground, and holding with both hands a vase whichrests against his body. There is no doubt that the same deity is figured inthese three statues, whatever the ornamentation, which variesaccording to the epoch, the locaHty, or the imagination ofthe artist. But Sanchez adds, recollecting that a numberof Mexican statues were sculptured also beneath thc^ir base, i^^-^-?. STATUE OF TLALOC OF TLASCALA (iN THE MUSEUM OF MEXICO). I turned this, when I discovered several devices in reliefThe sculptor had carved on the surface of the stone a sheet ofwater, aquatic plants, two frogs, and a fish; while the bank wasoccupied by beans and grains of maize, which are among theattributes of Tlaloc* The statue in the Mexican Museum,although found at Tlascala, must necessarily be Toltec from itsarchaic character, and determines the origin of the second atChichen-Itza. When we add that the same customs, the same in-stitutions, the same manner of computing time, the same religion. 368 The Ancient Cities of the New World. and the same arms, were common to both the tribes of theplateaux and the Mayas of the peninsula, as recorded by allancient writers so often quoted in the course of this work, wethink we may even more positively affirm that the Yucateccivilisa
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