Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ article to be carried on a journeyas a matter of course. To these three pictures from the Mendozacodex I add still another example («, figure 133), taken from the Mix-tec Colombino (Dorenberg) codex, illustrating a subject of a moremythologic nature. Here, too, is an undoubted representation oftravelers, who therefore hold in their right hand what may be alance or merely a traveling staff and in their left hand carry a the foremost of these persons is the most famous of the Mexican. Fig. 133. Truvelers and whi
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ article to be carried on a journeyas a matter of course. To these three pictures from the Mendozacodex I add still another example («, figure 133), taken from the Mix-tec Colombino (Dorenberg) codex, illustrating a subject of a moremythologic nature. Here, too, is an undoubted representation oftravelers, who therefore hold in their right hand what may be alance or merely a traveling staff and in their left hand carry a the foremost of these persons is the most famous of the Mexican. Fig. 133. Truvelers and whip, from the Mixtec-Columbino codex and the Chama vase. gods, Quetzalcoatl, the wind god and the hero of the myths of thewandering Toltecs. The application of these pictures to the scene represented on theChama vase is self-evident. Whoever examines the attitude and bear-ing of the separate personages impartially will scarcely form the ideathat one of the chief priests advancing from the right seems to de-mand the death of the kneeling victim with bloodthirsty vehemence,while the one opposite is evidently trying to pacify him It isscarcely probable that such matters were ever discussed. If a sacri-fice was deemed necessary or useful, and a fit subject was at hand,the sacrifice was performed. The scene assuredly has an entirelydifferent meaning from the one ascribed to it, and I think I canexplain it in two words: arrival and reception. Now for the kneeling figure. Mr Dieseldorff thinks it is an elderly seler] THE VASE OF CHAM A 655 Indian intended for sacrifi
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