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in the southern mound of the settlement of La Cueva, near Santa Cruz. 

 It agrees very well with this explanation that it was the southern 

 mound in which the pots with the o])sidian knives and the finger joints 

 were found, for the south was consecrated to the war god and to vic- 

 tory. This we see in the familiar picture of the Cortesian codex 

 which represents the tonalamatl divided into four divisions, which, 

 with the deities belonging to them, are arranged around the two gods 



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Fig. 23. Animal-shaped vessel from Guatemala. 



of creation, forming the center. Here, in the last division of the 

 tonalamatl, which consequently l)elongs to the south, the picture (r/, 

 figure 23) is seen showing the hieroglyph of the south (Nohol) and the 

 war gods with the bound captive. That one is the division belonging 

 to the south and the other the sign belonging to the south 1 have 

 already pointed out in mj^ paper on Mexican chronology." 



aZeitSChrift fiir Ethnologie, 1891, v. 23, pp. 104, 105. 



