. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. dilavcL .. Fig. 79. Mexican deities, after Duran and Sahagun. ( the land of the Mimixcoua , Mimixcoua in tlalpan) below themesquites and hanging on the melon thistle cacti, and who becametheir first tribute (yehuantin yacachto tequitizque), that is, theywere the first whom they offered as sacrifices to their god («, figure81).a The characteristic is doubtless also indicated on the faces ofthe captives adorned for the sacrificio gladiatorio, by whom the con-quest and subjugation of a city or county is regularly typified
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. dilavcL .. Fig. 79. Mexican deities, after Duran and Sahagun. ( the land of the Mimixcoua , Mimixcoua in tlalpan) below themesquites and hanging on the melon thistle cacti, and who becametheir first tribute (yehuantin yacachto tequitizque), that is, theywere the first whom they offered as sacrifices to their god («, figure81).a The characteristic is doubtless also indicated on the faces ofthe captives adorned for the sacrificio gladiatorio, by whom the con-quest and subjugation of a city or county is regularly typified inthe Codex Telleriano-Kemensis (see above, figures 55 and 56). It is obvious that this black painting about the eye is connected in Boturini codex, p. 9. The foremost prostrate figure, that is, the one lying fartheston the right, whom the Aztec designated by the hieroglyph Aztlan is sacrificing, isQuilaztli, that is, the earth goddess, recognizable by the black color about the follow her brothers, the Miniixcona, the first designated hieroglyphically by the pic-ture o
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