Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 294
the accompanying figure (17), whichrepresents the Mexican goddess of death — Teoyaomi-qui. The image is nine feet high, and is kept in amuseum in the city of Mexico. Mr. Edward B. Tylor,from whose excellent book of travels in that countrythe figure is copied, says of it:— The stone known as ^ 2… … Fig. 17.—Teoyaomiqui. three gods—Huitzilopochtli, the god of war; Teoyaomi-qui, his wife; and Mictlanteuctli, the god of hell. It hasnecklaces of alternate hearts and dead mens hands, withdeaths heads for a central ornament. At the bottom of the block is a strange sprawling figure, which one…
Demonology · Mythology · Occultism
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