. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ddess is represented opposite the god Tepeyollotl, in others, instead of theformer, there is the picture of a man eating his own excrement (hieroglyph for Tlael-quani) and the symbol of the moon (see figure 65). h I had not arrived at a full comprehension of all these circumstances when I wrotemy work on Tonalamatl der Aubinschen Sammlung. c This signification of Tezcatlipoca is also supported by other passages in the picturewritings, specially by the following codices : Borgian, p. 27 ; Vaticanus B, pp. 6, 79, orBorgi
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ddess is represented opposite the god Tepeyollotl, in others, instead of theformer, there is the picture of a man eating his own excrement (hieroglyph for Tlael-quani) and the symbol of the moon (see figure 65). h I had not arrived at a full comprehension of all these circumstances when I wrotemy work on Tonalamatl der Aubinschen Sammlung. c This signification of Tezcatlipoca is also supported by other passages in the picturewritings, specially by the following codices : Borgian, p. 27 ; Vaticanus B, pp. 6, 79, orBorgian, p. 46 ; and Vaticanus B, p. 37. 282 BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 Borgian codex, corresponding to pages 3 and 76 of Codex VaticanusB, with the deity of the nineteenth day sign, b and c. Here isapparently not a question of directly doing penance, but of piousexercises in general, especially of fasting. I have copied thesepictures, first, because the figure of Codex Vaticanus B, page 3, <?,shows clearly a rope of grass by the ends of the braid which are cut. Fig. 60. Drawing blood from the ears, and implements of castigation, fromMexican codices. off below and terminate above in small flower heads, after the mannerof the malinalli, and secondly, because this rope of grass recurs inMexican picture writings, to wit, as a symbol for fasting in thehieroglyphs of the kings Nezahualcoyotl, the fasting prairie wolf ,and Nezahualpilli, the fasting prince , of Tetzcoco, as they aredepicted in the Codex Telleriano-Kemensis, d and e. ZAPOTEC PRIESTHOOD AND CEREMONIAES 283 Although it is therefore plain that the symbol of the grass ropewas not unknown to the Mexicans, still it is frequent only in thepicture writings of the Borgian codex group, and in this group isrepresented only particularly in connection with expiation of occurrence, like that of the representation of the four rain gods(figure 58) and the deer figures hearing the day signs (figure 59),seem therefore
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