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Maya religion and mythology (1881)

Bowditch, Charles P, Hagar, Stansbury · United States : [s.l.] · leaf 114

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Acanceh, and generally throughout the Mexican zodiacalmbolism. The principal dog sacrifice of the Maya ritual took place in the uinal ortwenty day period Pax when the sun was passing through this sign.3 Hag >r in Proceeding* International Congress of Americanists, Sixteenth Session, pp. 277 et… … Hagar—Maya Zodiac at Santa Rita In the lower band beneath the deity, a plumed serpent, the most generallyused symbol of Quetzalcoatl, issues from a solar disc, indicating the solar pas-sage through this sign. It suggests the almost identical plumed serpent effigies used in the Soy-aluna ceremonies…

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