selee] temple pyramid OF TEPOXTLAN 351 



Hiiaiitla in Mr. Robledo's possession. In the old Uhde collection in 

 the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin there are others of a very 

 similar character (figure 39). These are by no means images of 

 the pulque gods, but probably represent Macuil-xochitl, the god of 

 o-aming, who is indeed frequently named together -with the pulque 

 gods. If any stone image is entitled to give us an idea of the 

 idol which stood in the cella of the casa del Tepozteco, it is the fine 



Fig. 90. Stone figure of pulque god, 

 Trocadero Museum. 



statue in the Musee du Trocadero (figure 90), which is reproduced 

 under the title " Statue en calcaire, Toltec arme de la hache de 

 pierre " on page ix of the magnificent album recently published with 

 the title '' Galerie Americaine du Musee d'Ethnographie du Troca- 

 dero ", for which the Due de Loubat, with his accustomed liber- 

 ality, has again pro^•ided the means. That is without question a 

 pulque god, a Tepoxtecatl, distinguished by the crescent-shaped nose 



