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a, Acanceh, and generally throughout the Mexican zodiacalsymbolism. 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 1 Hagar in Proceedings International Congress of Americanists, Sixteenth Session, pp. 277… … Hagar*—Maya Zodiac at Santa Rita 213 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…
