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merged one in the other in the languages of Mexico and Central 

 America." 



There is, besides, a representation in which a deity of this " eye of 

 light " or '^ eye of rays '' is presented to 

 us directly. It is on that one of the fa- 

 mous relief slabs of Santa Lucia Cozu- 

 malhuapa which is now in the Royal 

 Museum of Ethnology at Berlin, and I 

 reproduce it here in figure 77 (after C. 

 Habel, but with some cori-ections). 

 Here is seen the deity hovei'ing above, 

 and before him, below, the dancer 

 dressed in the attributes of the deity. 

 The head of the deity is set. as it were, 

 like an eye under a large eyebrow which 

 is curled up at the ends, and on which 

 rest three zigzag rays. The dancer wears 

 in his hair ornament the eye set in an 

 eyebrow with three upright points, and a 

 similar eye is above him on the end of a 

 separate staff. The otlier atti'ihutes, such 

 as the jaguar's skin which hangs down 

 from the back of the dancer, the point of 

 the spear, which is seen behind, and the 

 jaguar's head, which he wears as a hand 

 mask and as a decoration on his belt, show 

 that we have before us the deity of a burn- 

 ing star, of the sun itself. 



No part of the representations Avhich 

 were below the border of clear sky is 

 presei'ved on the east side of T'alace TV 

 (fragment 1, plate xxxvii). On the 

 north side can be seen the head of Xipe '' 

 near the western end (fragment 2, plate 

 xxxvii). The god is recognized by the 

 narroAv eye, the forked nose ornament, and 



the broad red stripe, of the w^idth of the eye, that passes down the 

 whole length of the face, which seems to connect this deity, much woi'- 

 shiped in the Atlantic Sierra Madre and the coast lands lying before 



"Compare Mexican: Ixtll, "la haz o la cara (the front or the face)"; ix-telolotll, " ojo 

 (eye)"; Zapotec : lao, loo, piahui-lao-ni, "haz'por el rostro o cara del hombre (front to 

 the beak or face of a man)"; 13,0, piz^a-lao, "ojo con que vemos, 6 ojos (eye with which 

 we see, or eyes)"; Maya: ich, "cara, ojos, vista, semljlante. haz, anverso (face, eyes, 

 aspect, appearance, front, oltverse)". 



'' See, concerning this god, Tonalamatl der Aubinschen Sammlung, work cited, pp. 

 657-675, and Verolfentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, v. 1, 

 pt. 4, pp. 145, 146 (illustration, fig. 13, p. 151). 



Fig. 77. Sculptured slab, Santa 

 Lucia Cozumalhuapa, Guate- 

 mala. 



