. Guide leaflet. 57 58 AMFJUCAX MCSKlM (11 I/)/- LEAFLET The three Maya hooks fall into thislast category. As the Maya had de-veloi)ed an extremely conventionalizedway of depictin*i- word symbols, the paues,from an artistic i)oint of view, do not com-pare with the Highland the latter the manuscripts assign-al)le to the Mixtec civilization areespecially handsome. The day signs antlthe representations of the divinities arecarefully, one might say arduously, ( are based npon the ritualisticimi)()rtance of the details shown Iatherthan their anatomical symmetry. Col
. Guide leaflet. 57 58 AMFJUCAX MCSKlM (11 I/)/- LEAFLET The three Maya hooks fall into thislast category. As the Maya had de-veloi)ed an extremely conventionalizedway of depictin*i- word symbols, the paues,from an artistic i)oint of view, do not com-pare with the Highland the latter the manuscripts assign-al)le to the Mixtec civilization areespecially handsome. The day signs antlthe representations of the divinities arecarefully, one might say arduously, ( are based npon the ritualisticimi)()rtance of the details shown Iatherthan their anatomical symmetry. Colorsare used not only to reproduce naturaltones but also to define the object cere-monially, since colors had a strong ritual-istic significance in Central Americanreligion. Permeating all the symbols,and their distribution on the page, isdesign, which follows closely in the trainof the order implicit in ritual. Aztec Paixtixg In coui})arison to the Mixtec docu-ments, the ])ainting in Aztec manuscriptsseems barbar
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