. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. WALL PAINN. ?JTINGS AT MITL Seler] EXPLANATION OF WALL PATNTTNGS 313 it, with a well-known deity of the Maya manuscripts, a deity of , and death, who appears in the retinue of the death god. Xipe inour fragment does not appear directly as the stone-knife god (Tztapal totec, that is, Itz-tlapalli, or Tlapal-itztli, Totec), as, for exam-ple, in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis; but he wears a crown of stoneknives, from which hangs a feather plume. Beside him, on the right,are visible the heads and bodies of two serp
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. WALL PAINN. ?JTINGS AT MITL Seler] EXPLANATION OF WALL PATNTTNGS 313 it, with a well-known deity of the Maya manuscripts, a deity of , and death, who appears in the retinue of the death god. Xipe inour fragment does not appear directly as the stone-knife god (Tztapal totec, that is, Itz-tlapalli, or Tlapal-itztli, Totec), as, for exam-ple, in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis; but he wears a crown of stoneknives, from which hangs a feather plume. Beside him, on the right,are visible the heads and bodies of two serpents, having a row ofpoints along their backs. In fragment 3 there can be recognized two persons sitting with theirarms crossed over their breasts, evidently two penitents, for be-tween them project two sharpened thigh bones, implements of self-castigation, which served to pierce the tongue, ears, or limbs in orderto draw blood for sacrifice to the deity. The remnants still preserved in fragment 4 will no longer permit ofinterpretation. In fragment 5, however, we still have on eac
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