SELER] VENUS PERIOD IX PICTUEE WRITINGS 373 



After these introductory remarks, I can now pass to the principal 

 representation, found on pages 53 and 54 of the Borgian codex 

 (Kinsborough, pages 62 and 61) , which correspond to pages 80 and 84 

 of Codex Vaticanus B (Kingsborough, pages 17 to 13) and the like 

 place in the Bologna codex, pages 9 to 11. 



On page 80 of the Vatican codex we see at the right a figure (h, 

 figure 97) which the first glance proves is identical with e, figure 95, 

 and must accordingly represent the deity of the planet Venus with 

 the hieroglyph of that planet painted on the face. Under the eyes, 

 however, a flourish is added which recalls the facial configuration 

 of certain personages represented in the Maya manuscripts and also 

 on pottery figures of Zapotec and Maya (Chiapanec, Guatemalan) 

 origin. The quincunx of the face painting in this figure, and the 

 same is true of c, figure 95, is not so correctly expressed as in the 

 figures of the better executed Borgian codex. The deity holds a 

 spear thrower and a bundle of spears in his hand. Before him are 

 five circles like blazing stars, and opposite him is a divinity struck 

 by a spear. Precisely the same deity of the planet Venus, holding- 

 spears and a spear thrower, occupies the right side of th(^ other pages. 

 The five blazing stars are repeated in a similar manner on the other 

 four pages, except that they are painted blue on the second and 

 fourth pages, as on the first page, but 3'ellow on the third and fifth 

 pages. On the other liand, the form struck by the spear is changed, 

 its place on the other pages being filled partly by other divinities, 

 partly by certain symbols. 



I reproduce in c, figure 97, the figure which appears on the pages of 

 the Borgian codex in the first of the five divisions. The deity of the 

 planet Venus with the Venus hieroglyph painted on his face is again 

 readily recognized, except that here he is represented with a death "'s- 

 head, as in a (page 19 of the Borgian codex). Here, too, the divin- 

 ity holds the spear thrower and bundle of spears and throws a spear 

 at a figure kneeling before him. The five blazing stars are absent. 

 In the other divisions the divinity is not in the Borgian codex 

 repeated in exactly the same manner as it is in the Vatican codex. 

 The body coloring varies: On the divinity of the first division it 

 is white with stripes; on the others it is blue, red, yellow, and again 

 white with stripes. In place of the characteristic face of the deity 

 of the planet Venus there are heads of animals (vulture, dog, rabbit) 

 ni the three following divisions and in the last a white death's-head. 

 Accessories, dress, and action are in general precisely the same as 

 those of the first figure. The forms struck by the spear vary in 

 the same way as in the Vatican codex, but the order is somewhat 

 different. 



I reproduce in d the group presented in the first division on the 

 pages of the Bologna codex. The homology between this and the 



