. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ure 87 I give the picture of the pulque god Tepoxtecatl and 350 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 his hieroglyph, the copper ax, from the picture manuscript of theBiblioteca Nazionale in Florence. The variousthings bty which these gods are usually distinguishedin the picture manuscripts are here given distinctlyand well—the bicolored face, the crescent-shaped (AjrrScm nose ornament (yaca-metztli), the bicolored shieldL k. U (ometoch-chimalli) adorned with the same nosecrescent, the long necklace hanging down, made
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ure 87 I give the picture of the pulque god Tepoxtecatl and 350 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 his hieroglyph, the copper ax, from the picture manuscript of theBiblioteca Nazionale in Florence. The variousthings bty which these gods are usually distinguishedin the picture manuscripts are here given distinctlyand well—the bicolored face, the crescent-shaped (AjrrScm nose ornament (yaca-metztli), the bicolored shieldL k. U (ometoch-chimalli) adorned with the same nosecrescent, the long necklace hanging down, made ofthe herb malinalli (tlachayaual-cozcatl), and thestone ax (iztopolli, tecpatopolli). This picture in-deed gives very little assistance in determining theappearance of the idol that stood in the cella of thecasa del Tepozteco. When I was in Cuernavaca Isaw in the house of the licenciado Cecilio Robelo astone image, which originally came from made a hasty sketch of it at the time, which is re-produced in figure 88. There was a very similar stone image from. Pig. 88. Stone idolfrom Tepoxtlan. /Ipj^ I X FT - ^^> ? ? Jm ? . ?: ???? ???,.. . m X H . 1 1 ~<Wm ?-•? :-:^- : fj 1 Ik. «n Fig. 89. Stone figure from the Uiade collection. SELER] TEMPLE PYRAMID OF TEPOXTLAN 351 Huautla in Mr. Robledos possession. In the old Uhde collection inthe Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin there are others of a verysimilar character (figure 39). These are by no means images ofthe pulque gods, but probably represent Macuil-xochitl, the god ofgaming, who is indeed frequently named together with the pulquegods. If any stone image is entitled to give us an idea of theidol whichstood in the cella of the casa del Tepozteco, it is the fine
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