Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 89. Stone figure from the Uhde collection. SELER] TEMPLE PYRAMID OF TEPOXTLAN 351 Hiiautla in Mr. Kobledos possession. In the old Ulide collection inthe Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin there are others of a verysimilar character (hgure 39). These are by no means images ofthe pulque gods, but probably represent Macuil-xochitl, the god ofgaming, who is indeed frequently named together with the pulquegods. If any stone image is entitled to give us an idea of theidol which stood in the cella of the casa del Tepozte
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 89. Stone figure from the Uhde collection. SELER] TEMPLE PYRAMID OF TEPOXTLAN 351 Hiiautla in Mr. Kobledos possession. In the old Ulide collection inthe Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin there are others of a verysimilar character (hgure 39). These are by no means images ofthe pulque gods, but probably represent Macuil-xochitl, the god ofgaming, who is indeed frequently named together with the pulquegods. If any stone image is entitled to give us an idea of theidol which stood in the cella of the casa del Tepozteco, it is the fine. Fig. 90. Stone figure of pulque god,Trocadero Museum. statue in the Musee du Trocadero (figure 90), which is reproducedunder the title Statue en calcaire, Toltec arme de la hache depierre on page ix of the magnificent album recently published withthe title Galerie Americaine du Musee dEthnographie du Troca-dero , for which the Due de Loubat, with his accustomed liber-ality, has again proAided the means. That is without question apulque god, a Tepoxtecatl, distinguished by tlie crescent-shaped nose 352 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 plate, the stone ax, the ear pendants, Avhich correspond exactly tothose in our figure 87, the frontal in the form of a Mexican royalcrown, examples of which are also worn by the pulque god in theBorgian codex, page 26; Codex Vaticanus B, page 70 (or Codex Vati-canus 3773, page 31) and Codex Vaticanus B, page 7 (or Codex Vati-canus 3773, page 30), and lastly also by the forehead knot of Quet-zalcoatl, which is to be seen likewise on the pulque god i
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