Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
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XU3EECCI ELXX XIMZHEJ XEEEET PAINTINGS AT MITUA seler) EXPLANATION OP WALL PAINTINGS 323 tion of the forehead. In the last figure on the right, which differsfrom the other forms of this side of the court in having a round eye of death, the face is divided length-wise by a broad stripe, which re-calls the drawing of Xipe, into alight front half and a dark rearhalf. The latter is covered withconcentric circles very much resem-bling the divisions in the face paint-ing which are generally seen in thepictures of Quetzalcoatl. Thereis in this case also evident varia-tion of form or of conception of thesame deit)^. The way in which, onone single strip of wall painting,the same deity is represented withslight alterations, sometimes in dif-ferent forms, and sometimes only incalligraphic variants, closely follow-ing one upon the other, recalls the calligraphic variants, or hiero-glyphic elements repeated with slight alterations, which one so oftenmeets with in the ornamentation and hieroglyphic

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