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paiiioii, at the third day sign Calli, " house '' (or Zapotec Ehi, Maya 

 Akbal, ''night"), is the earth goddess alone expressed by the hiero- 

 glypli of her name Thielquani, " dirt eater ", namely, by the picture of 

 a man eating his oAvn excrement, with the symbol of the moon (fig- 

 ure Go), 



Fio. <J4. Tepeyollotl and Tlacolteotl, Mexican deities, from the Borgian codex. 



This god of the third calendar section is named Tepeolotlec by the 

 interpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. This is evidentl}' only 

 a distortion of Tepe^'ollotl, ""heart of the mountain (of the place, 

 village, country)'', who was named as the eighth of the series of the 

 nine lords, the so-called '' acompanados de la noche ", and who (Bor- 



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Tlaehiuani, Mexican goddess, from the Borgian codex. 



gian codex, page lio) is represented in the form of figure 60. The 

 interpreter makes the following remark concerning Te]ieolotlec : 



Thi« nauie refers to tlie condition of the earth after the flood. The sacrifices 

 of these 18 days were not good, and the translation of their name is " dirt sacri- 

 fices ". They caused palsy and had humors . . . This Tepeolotlec was lord 

 of the.se 13 days; in them were cdehrated the teast to the .lagiiar (hazian la 

 fiesta en data a tigre) and the four last preceding days were days of fast- 

 ing . . . Tepeolotlec means the " lord of heasts ". The four feast days 

 were in lioner of the Suchi(juezal, who was the man that remained hehind on 

 the earth upon which we now live. This Tepeolotlec is the same as the echo of 



