Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . 378 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY tBULL. 28. i Jc Pig. 99. Figures and symbols of Maya and Mexican deities. VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 379 nose represents the blowing of the storm in the conventional mannerof the Central American peoj)les. Dieseldortf identifies him withKukulcan the Quetzalcoatl of the Mexican races. I consider itto be almost beyond doubt that he represents the water deity. Onthe stela^ of Copan and in Menche he appears as a serpent {d andfignre 99). In the Troano codex, page 26, he is the serpent
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . 378 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY tBULL. 28. i Jc Pig. 99. Figures and symbols of Maya and Mexican deities. VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 379 nose represents the blowing of the storm in the conventional mannerof the Central American peoj)les. Dieseldortf identifies him withKukulcan the Quetzalcoatl of the Mexican races. I consider itto be almost beyond doubt that he represents the water deity. Onthe stela^ of Copan and in Menche he appears as a serpent {d andfignre 99). In the Troano codex, page 26, he is the serpent on whichChac, the rain god, rides figure 98). In the upper division ofpage 25 of the Dresden manuscript the rain god Chac, borne alongby the dog-headed priest, officiates as his representative. He agreesgenerally with Chac, not in the nose indeed, which in the rain godcurves doAvnward and is large but plain, but in the whole shape ofthe face and in the long teeth hanging out, which appear like the teethof Tlaloc metamorphosed, the head of which god forms his hiero-glyph (c, figure 98) in one passage (page 3) of t
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