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Maya religion and mythology (1881)

Bowditch, Charles P, Hagar, Stansbury · United States : [s.l.] · leaf 124

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. Anelaborate speech symbol issues from its mouth, and around it appears theI ail il.ol ot rain. Admitting the difficulty of reconciling this group with a definite sequence, I am inclined to believe that the whole scene represents arifice to the mn in the death sign Scorpio held during the uinal… … Hagar—Maya Zodiac at Santa Rita 219 life. It is possible that the skull itself, with the outpouring speech symbolreally represents the Xul glyph, a skull with departing breath, but more likely itis the Tlatoani or priest speaker with the spirits of the dead, a Scorpio symbolThe deities then…

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