. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 9. Mexican shields. sun (b, figure 8). Beside the latter stands ce Mazatl (one deer), asthe name hieroglyph of the day. Beside the former (<?, figure 8) as namehieroglyph of the day is macuilli Cuetzpalin (five lizard). Theformer god, whom I must take, for various reasons, to be the same asXolotl in the Borgian codex, page 29 (a, figure 9), wears on his left arma shield, which has a hand as its emblem, and the ends of his loin clothare also painted with large black hands. Xolotl is a figure which orig-inated in
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 9. Mexican shields. sun (b, figure 8). Beside the latter stands ce Mazatl (one deer), asthe name hieroglyph of the day. Beside the former (<?, figure 8) as namehieroglyph of the day is macuilli Cuetzpalin (five lizard). Theformer god, whom I must take, for various reasons, to be the same asXolotl in the Borgian codex, page 29 (a, figure 9), wears on his left arma shield, which has a hand as its emblem, and the ends of his loin clothare also painted with large black hands. Xolotl is a figure which orig-inated in southern regions, and may possibly represent fire rushing downfrom heaven or light flaming up in the heavens. In the manuscripts7238—No. 28—05 5 66 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ the setting sun, devoured by the earth, is opposed to him, similarly asthe sun god is opposed to the death god. He may perhaps be describedas a sun god of southern tribes (Zapotecs?). In the Mexican legendhe appears as the representative of human sacrifice and as the god ofmonstrosit
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