Contributions to the history of the south-western portion of the United States (1890)
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 · Cambridge : John Wilson and Son, University Press · leaf 99
theyare found represented on the sculpture before us : — 1. The general hideousness of its appearance. 2. Its height and bulk. 3. The girdle or belt of snakes around the body. 4. The skull or skulls. In place, therefore, of christening the monolith after an 1 Cod ice Rajiiirez Tratado 2°, cap. iv.… … NOTES ABOUT THE CITY OF MEXICO, 67 imaginary composite deity of whose existence the oldest au-thorities make no mention, it strikes me as much more nat-ural to believe that it represents the well-known war god ofthe Mexican tribe, Huitzilopochtli; and that consequently itwas indeed the famous…
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