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the Sun (see plates), and see the mask, or human face, which 
hangs suspended on the wall, back of the shrine or altar, 
Here is the round face which symbolised the sun, the pro- 
jecting tongue to symbolise the power of the sun. In front 
of the Oratorio, or chapel, on the piers, are the bas-reliefs 
which represent the nature-divinities. Here is the rain- 
god on one side and the war-god upon the other. Notice, 
however, that the rain-god is marked by a peculiar form 
and face, the chief feature being the open, bulging eye.. 
Here we have a specimen of nature-divinity, but there is as- 
eribed to it all the personality that it is possible to express by 
the human face or by the human eye. ‘The tiger-skin on the 
back of the rain-god represents the animal attributes, but the 
human face represents the personal attributes. The same 
_ eye will be recognised in the face of the sun and in the faces 
of the figures below the sun, showing that all the powers of 
nature were personified. ‘The rain-god has in his mouth the 
pipe or tube through which he blows the winds, and in front 
of his person may be seen the feathered serpent which | 
‘symbolises the lightnings which obey his will. Above the 
piers on the facade is the winged circle which signifies the 
cloud, and the rain the overshadowing divinity of the sky. 
_ The Temple of the Sun is full of the emblems of personal 
power, and illustrates how intensely the artists struggled to 
express the attributes of the personal divinity which ruled the 
powers or nature. I cannot look upon these figures without 
_ being impressed with this thought, that there was a personal 
divinity which looked out from the faces and the forms, and 
that the people were impressed with the power of this divinity. 
Here, then, we have the first doctrine embodied in Scrupture, 
the existence of a personal God. It is a principle of heno- 
theism that one divinity rules at a time, the conception of 
that divinity absorbing all thought and feeling. If henotheism 
existed in Central America, it was henotheism which reached 
theanthropomorphicstage, and was as expressive of personality 
as was ever the same system in the classic regions of the Hast. 
We do not maintain that monotheism existed among the» 
Toltees, but we think that all this imagery, which is so 
elaborate, was only the expression of the feeling which is 
very strong in every human heart, that there is a God above 
us to whom we are accountable, and on whom we depend; and 
though the mind was beclouded and the religious consciousness 
overshadowed, yet, amid the symbols and ceremonies of this’ 
Strange nature-worship, the conscience struggled to express 
itself, and to make known the true divinity. he doctrine of 
