Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . WALL PAIN BULLETIN 28 PLATE XXXVIII. IGS AT MITLA selek] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 319 (a, figure 71), from Duniii, volume 2, plate (>, a), and of Payual andxVtlaua as they are represented in the Aztec Sahagun nianuscri})t ofthe Biblioteca del Palacio at Madrid {b and c, figure 79). It was alsocharacteristic of Mixcoatl, who, like Camaxtli, was god of the chase,and in honor of whom the Mexicans celebrated the feast of picture in the Sahagun manuscript of the Biblioteca del Palaciorepresents this feast
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . WALL PAIN BULLETIN 28 PLATE XXXVIII. IGS AT MITLA selek] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 319 (a, figure 71), from Duniii, volume 2, plate (>, a), and of Payual andxVtlaua as they are represented in the Aztec Sahagun nianuscri})t ofthe Biblioteca del Palacio at Madrid {b and c, figure 79). It was alsocharacteristic of Mixcoatl, who, like Camaxtli, was god of the chase,and in honor of whom the Mexicans celebrated the feast of picture in the Sahagun manuscript of the Biblioteca del Palaciorepresents this feast, with the god and hunters wearing the costumeof the god, who perform a dance or march in procession before him(a, figure 80). Finally, this characteristic is exhibited in exactly thesame way in the Borgian codex, by the god who is being sacrificed onthe ball ground on whicli the red and the black Tezcatlipoca are atplay {h. figure 80). It is also one of the attributes of the Mimix-coua, the sorcerers, called Xiuhnel and Mimitzin, who, with theirsister Quilaztli, were found by the migratory Aztecs in the n
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