. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. them. The night, or the starry sky, is hererepresented as a surrounding border by means of eyes in a dotted(that is, dark) field. On this side of the court are represented, not different deities,but different disguises of the same deity. The application of darkpaint to the face around the eyes, like a domino, is the one essentialcharacteristic in which this god coincides with the deity of the morn-ing star, who, according to the interpreters rendering, is lord of thedawn, but also lord of the twilight when night is abo
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. them. The night, or the starry sky, is hererepresented as a surrounding border by means of eyes in a dotted(that is, dark) field. On this side of the court are represented, not different deities,but different disguises of the same deity. The application of darkpaint to the face around the eyes, like a domino, is the one essentialcharacteristic in which this god coincides with the deity of the morn-ing star, who, according to the interpreters rendering, is lord of thedawn, but also lord of the twilight when night is about to fall (quiere dezir serior de mahana quando amanex;e, y lo mismo es seriorde aquella claridad quando quiere anochecer). (See figures 62 and68.) The same characteristic is, however, also an attribute of Cam-axtli, who was the god of Tlaxcallan and was called god of the chase See, concerning this god, Das Tonalamatl der Aubinschen Sammking, p. 682 andfollowing. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. iI3EOEI3 .\XIII
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