. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ff i Fig. 98. Figures and glyphs of Aii-bolon tzaeab, Maya codices. 378 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY I BULL. 28. * k Pig. 99. Figures and symbols of Maya and Mexican deities. SEME] VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 379 nose represents the blowing of the storm in the conventional mannerof the Central American peoples. Dieseldorff identifies him withKukulcan the Qnetzalcoatl of the Mexican races. I consider itto be almost beyond doubt that he represents the water deity. Onthe stelae of Copan and in Menche he appears as a
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ff i Fig. 98. Figures and glyphs of Aii-bolon tzaeab, Maya codices. 378 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY I BULL. 28. * k Pig. 99. Figures and symbols of Maya and Mexican deities. SEME] VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 379 nose represents the blowing of the storm in the conventional mannerof the Central American peoples. Dieseldorff identifies him withKukulcan the Qnetzalcoatl of the Mexican races. I consider itto be almost beyond doubt that he represents the water deity. Onthe stelae of Copan and in Menche he appears as a serpent (d and <?,figure 99). In the Troano codex, page 26, he is the serpent on whichChac, the rain god, rides (g, figure 98). In the upper division ofpage 25 of the Dresden manuscript the rain god Chac, borne alongby the dog-headed priest, officiates as his representative. He agreesgenerally with Chac, not in the nose indeed, which in the rain godcurves downward and is large but plain, but in the whole shape ofthe face and in the long teeth hanging out, which appear like the teethof Tlaloc metamorphosed, the head of which god forms his hiero-glyph (c, figure 98) in one passage
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