Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (1904)
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum · leaf 25
nals of reliefsand inscriptions for direct study. The representations on thereliefs from the Maya region, it is true, give evidence of dealingwith kindred mythologic conceptions. Figures and hieroglyphsof gods, made familiar by the manuscripts, can also be foundhere and there. But on the whole so… … God A is represented as a figure with an exposed, bony spine,truncated nose and grinning teeth, i It is plainly to be seenthat the head of this god represents a skull and that the spineis that of a skeleton. The pictures of the death-god are socharacteristic in the Maya manuscripts that the deity…
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