Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . 9. Veroffentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, v. 1, pt. 4, SELER] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 315 of an agave leaf. The round ends of tlie head knots, which are char-acteristic, of Quetzalcoatl, for evcrythino- about the wind god isround or twisted in spirals, are to be found here and there. Thethorny, curved ear decoration tzicoliuluHii nacochtli, plainlymeant to look as if cut out of a snail shell, seen in the pictures of thisgod in the Borgian codex, Codex Vaticanus B, etc., is enti
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . 9. Veroffentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, v. 1, pt. 4, SELER] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 315 of an agave leaf. The round ends of tlie head knots, which are char-acteristic, of Quetzalcoatl, for evcrythino- about the wind god isround or twisted in spirals, are to be found here and there. Thethorny, curved ear decoration tzicoliuluHii nacochtli, plainlymeant to look as if cut out of a snail shell, seen in the pictures of thisgod in the Borgian codex, Codex Vaticanus B, etc., is entirely lack-ing in our paintings, being replaced by a simple ear disk. The breastornament of Quetzalcoatl, no less characteristic, and is evidentlycut out of a Avhelk shell, which is called in the Aztec Sahagun textecailacatz-cozcatl, the spirally twisted wind ornamentis alsolacking, but probably only because from the neck down the figuresare altogether destroyed. On the other hand, in fragment 4b, plateXXXVII, it is outlined on the shield of the god. The fanlike or wing-. FiG. 78. Symbols and figures of Quetzalcoatl, from Mexican codices. like feather ornament, standing out stiffly from the nape of theneck, which in the Aztec Sahagun text is once called cuezaluitoncatl, fanlike ornament of red guacamayo feathers and another timequetzal-coxol-tlamamalli, dorsal ornament of quetzal and partridgefeathers ?. is in our paintings always drawn like the pictures in theBorgian codex, Codex Vaticanus B, the Vienna codex, and the MixtecColombino codex (Dorenberg codex) ; that is, it consists of elongated,radiating feathers (in the picture writings painted entirely red orred with blue points), which are probably intended to represent thetail feathers of the red guacamayo ( macaw and objects betweenthese which are either actual representations of eyes (see a, figure 78,from the Mixtec Colombino, or Dorenberg, codex) or surfaces orna-mented with eyes more or less clearly expressed (see from t
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