Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fio. 64. Tepeyollotl and Tlacolteotl, Mexican deities, from the Borgian codex. This god of the third calendar section is named Tepeolotlec by theinterpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. This is evidently onlya distortion of Tepe3^ollotl, heart of the mountain (of the place,village, country), Avho was named as the eighth of the series of thenine lords, the so-called acompahados de la noche *, and who (Bor-. FiG. G5. Tlaelquani, Mexican goddess, from the Borgian codex. gian codex, page 25) is represented in the form
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fio. 64. Tepeyollotl and Tlacolteotl, Mexican deities, from the Borgian codex. This god of the third calendar section is named Tepeolotlec by theinterpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. This is evidently onlya distortion of Tepe3^ollotl, heart of the mountain (of the place,village, country), Avho was named as the eighth of the series of thenine lords, the so-called acompahados de la noche *, and who (Bor-. FiG. G5. Tlaelquani, Mexican goddess, from the Borgian codex. gian codex, page 25) is represented in the form of figure 66. Theinterpreter makes the following remark concerning Tepeolotlec: This name refers to the condition of the earth after the flood. The sacrificesof these. 13 days were not good, and the translation of their name is dirt sacri-fices . They caused palsy and bad humors . . This Tepeolotlec was lordot these 18 days; in them were celebrated the teast to the jaguar (hazian lafiesta en data a tigre) and the four last preceding days were days of fast-ing . . Tepeolotlec means the lord of beasts. The four feast dayswere in honer of the Suchiquezal, who was the man that remained behind onthe earth upon which we now live. This Tepeolotlec is the same as the echo of 292 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 theVoice, when it reechoes in u valley froiii one uiountain to another. . .This name jaguar is given to tlie earth, because the jaguar is the bohtestanimal, and the
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