. Bulletin. Ethnology. 312 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 merged one in the other in the languages of Mexico and Central ; There is, besides, a representation in which a deity of this " eye of light" or '^ eye of rays'' is presented to us directly. It is on that one of the fa- mous relief slabs of Santa Lucia Cozu- malhuapa which is now in the Royal Museum of Ethnology at Berlin, and I reproduce it here in figure 77 (after C. Habel, but with some cori-ections). Here is seen the deity hovei'ing above, and before him, below, the dancer dressed in the attributes of
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 312 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 merged one in the other in the languages of Mexico and Central ; There is, besides, a representation in which a deity of this " eye of light" or '^ eye of rays'' is presented to us directly. It is on that one of the fa- mous relief slabs of Santa Lucia Cozu- malhuapa which is now in the Royal Museum of Ethnology at Berlin, and I reproduce it here in figure 77 (after C. Habel, but with some cori-ections). Here is seen the deity hovei'ing above, and before him, below, the dancer dressed in the attributes of the deity. The head of the deity is set. as it were, like an eye under a large eyebrow which is curled up at the ends, and on which rest three zigzag rays. The dancer wears in his hair ornament the eye set in an eyebrow with three upright points, and a similar eye is above him on the end of a separate staff. The otlier atti'ihutes, such as the jaguar's skin which hangs down from the back of the dancer, the point of the spear, which is seen behind, and the jaguar's head, which he wears as a hand mask and as a decoration on his belt, show that we have before us the deity of a burn- ing star, of the sun itself. No part of the representations Avhich were below the border of clear sky is presei'ved on the east side of T'alace TV (fragment 1, plate xxxvii). On the north side can be seen the head of Xipe '' near the western end (fragment 2, plate xxxvii). The god is recognized by the narroAv eye, the forked nose ornament, and the broad red stripe, of the w^idth of the eye, that passes down the whole length of the face, which seems to connect this deity, much woi'- shiped in the Atlantic Sierra Madre and the coast lands lying before "Compare Mexican: Ixtll, "la haz o la cara (the front or the face)"; ix-telolotll, " ojo (eye)"; Zapotec : lao, loo, piahui-lao-ni, "haz'por el rostro o cara del hombre (front to the beak or face of a man)"; 13,0, piz^a-la
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