. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. he deity of the Zapotec Teotitlan del valle was consideredby the Mexicans the same as their Macuil-xochitl appears to follow a I have given more careful proof of this in my work Das Tonalamati der Au-binschen Sammlung (Compte rendu 7eme Session du Congres international desAmericanistes, Berlin, 1888), p. 723 and following, and in my Altmexikanische Studien(Veroffentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fur Volkerkunde zu Berlin, Band I,Ileft 4) pp. 162-164. 298 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 from the fact that i
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. he deity of the Zapotec Teotitlan del valle was consideredby the Mexicans the same as their Macuil-xochitl appears to follow a I have given more careful proof of this in my work Das Tonalamati der Au-binschen Sammlung (Compte rendu 7eme Session du Congres international desAmericanistes, Berlin, 1888), p. 723 and following, and in my Altmexikanische Studien(Veroffentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fur Volkerkunde zu Berlin, Band I,Ileft 4) pp. 162-164. 298 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 from the fact that in the immediate neighborhood of this place therewas another place called Quije-quilli, garland of flowers , by theZapotecs, but by the Mexicans, Macuilxochic. in Macuil-xochitlsvillage (see the glyph, 6, figure 67). Nothing remains to-day of the magnificent buildings of the ZapotecTeotitlan del valle, but portions of the ancient buildings, stonemosaics with geometric designs of the fashion of those of Mitlaand fragments of reliefs are here and there found embedded in the. Fig. 69. Zapotec relief fragments from Teotitlan. walls of houses and churches in Teotitlan, as well as in those of theneighboring Macuilxochic. Other pieces have already been placedin the Museo de Oaxaca. What relief fragments I have met with Ihave reproduced in figures 69 and TO, which are, of course, onlysketches and make no pretensions to special accuracy. The frag-ments in b and c, figure 70, are now in the museum at Oaxaca; b,figure 69, was still to be seen in Macuilxochic when I was there, whilea, figure 69, and a, figure 70, are embedded in the wall of the church ofTeotitlan del valle. It is quite evident that the reliefs exhibit, seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 299 besides the jaguar, the special local deity, a man whose face is heldby the jaws of a bird; that is, the god who came down from
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