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richly costumed women. But in this picture he has a purely human 

 appearance and the flint knife and mask of the Rain God are com- 

 bined in his descriptive hieroglyph. 



There are numerous analogous cases of individuals costumed to 

 live up to their names and it may be that this was normal usage in 

 those times. At any rate the common masquerades explain why 

 human beings have been mistaken for gods. 



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Eleven Water masked and unmasked. 



As regards place name hieroglyphs we limit ourselves to the 

 examination of one example. In figure 11 I give a series of hiero- 

 glyphs for a place which may be called Cloud -belching Mountain. 



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Figure 11. — A prominent place name, representing a mountain with a fillet of clouds 

 and with a face, or at least a mouth, from which a cloud or smoke issues. It 

 finally reduces to the helching mouth. 



It is represented by a cloud-capped hill, bearing either a face or a 

 mouth from which a dark smokelike substance issues. I suggest in 

 passing that there may be some connection between Cloud-belching 

 Hill and the tribal name Mixtec, which means Cloud People. 



THE DESCENT OF KINGS 



The tabulation of the numerous individuals recorded in the Zouche, 

 Bodley, Selden, and Vienna codices would be enough to overwhelm a 

 trained genealogist. But it is possible to pick out the more promi- 



