The fundamental principles of Old and New World civilizations : a comparative research based on a study of the ancient Mexican religious, sociological and calendrical systems (1901)
Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1933 · Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology · leaf 59
N CIVILIZATIONS. heaven and earth which underlies the Texcocan version of the cre¬ ation of man recorded as follows by Torquemada (op. etloc. cit.). “ The sun .... shot an arrow towards the land of Acolma near the boundary of Texcoco. This made a hole in the ground whence issued the first man . . .… … fig. 25. the symbol Tecpatl = flint, between them as the issue of their union. In the Borgian Codex (fig. 25, no. 1), a barbed arrowpoint, instead of the Tec¬ patl, figures between the celestial parents. Their union is symbol¬ ized by a covering, the shape of which, in further representations (fig.…
Civilization -- History · Mayas -- Antiquities · Calendar, Mexican · Mythology · Calendar · Swastikas
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