Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . h c Fig. 73. Descent of Qiietzalcoatl and house symbols, fromthe Vienna codex. (painted green, as usual), with the radiating eye on its surface, isplaced opposite another mountain, painted brown and black, thecolor of stone, out of which rise tongues of fire (6, figure 74). In 810 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BrLL. 28 the Vienna codex is found also a representation where the radiatingeye is enthroned in a house of its own (figure 76). This palaceof the radiating eye is represented on a mountain, on whose surface. a h (
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . h c Fig. 73. Descent of Qiietzalcoatl and house symbols, fromthe Vienna codex. (painted green, as usual), with the radiating eye on its surface, isplaced opposite another mountain, painted brown and black, thecolor of stone, out of which rise tongues of fire (6, figure 74). In 810 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BrLL. 28 the Vienna codex is found also a representation where the radiatingeye is enthroned in a house of its own (figure 76). This palaceof the radiating eye is represented on a mountain, on whose surface. a h (? Pig. 74. Venus symbol and figures of mountains and liouse, from Maya and Mexican codices. is indicated a blossoming tree, and opposite is seen, clothed in eaglearray, the deity 9 rolling ball AYe have already seen thissame deity in the remarkable representation in figure 78, where,
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