Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 60. Zapotec relief fragments from Teotitlan. walls of houses and churches in Teotitlan, as well as in those of theneighboring Macuilxochic. Other pieces have already been placedin the Museo de Oaxaca. WHiat relief fragments I have met with Ihave reproduced in figures 69 and 70, which are, of course, onlysketches and make no pretensions to special accuracy. The frag-ments in h and c, figure 70, are now in the museum at Oaxaca;figure 69, was still to be seen in Macuilxochic when I was there, while«, figure 69, and «,
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 60. Zapotec relief fragments from Teotitlan. walls of houses and churches in Teotitlan, as well as in those of theneighboring Macuilxochic. Other pieces have already been placedin the Museo de Oaxaca. WHiat relief fragments I have met with Ihave reproduced in figures 69 and 70, which are, of course, onlysketches and make no pretensions to special accuracy. The frag-ments in h and c, figure 70, are now in the museum at Oaxaca;figure 69, was still to be seen in Macuilxochic when I was there, while«, figure 69, and «, figure 70, are embedded in the wall of the church ofTeotitlan del valle. It is quite evident that the reliefs exhibit, SELER] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 299 besides the jaguar, the special local deity, a man whose face is heldby the jaws of a bird; that is, the god who came down from. Fig. 70. Zapotec relief fragments from Teotitlan. heaven in the form of a bird. A sharply defined feather crest on thetop of the head is seen here, as in the pottery idols of tlie Macnil- 300 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 xochitl of Teotitlan del camino, and this again points to the identityof the deities worshiped in both cities. As to the other conceptions of tlie sun hekl by the Zapotecs, Juandel Cordova mentions in his grammar« the remarkable impressionwhich the eclipse of the sun made on the ancient Zapotecs. Theyfeared nothing less than the end of the world, war of all against all,and murder on all sides; and since they had a notion that dwarfswere created at the bidding of the sun, when an event like theone above mentioned occurred they seized upon all dwarfed personswherever found and sacrificed them, in this way paying their debtto the sun, as it Avere, by restoring that which belonged to it. There is not much to be extracted from literature concerningthe other deit
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