104 A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TEOANO. 



judging by the blue liair, blue ear-circle, the bound serpent on the head, 

 and the similarity in the form of the mouth, anklets, and .wristlets, I am 

 disposed to believe it is, notwithstanding the material differences in other 

 respects. The mouth of the latter, the peculiar form of which is more dis- 

 tinctly shown than in the former, reminds us very strongly of that of the 

 s3'mbol of the Mexican da}^ Ehecall, "wind," as given in the various Codices. 

 I am disposed to think that the figure in Plate XXV represents her as the 

 storm-brewing goddess, while that in Plate XXVII shows her as the giver 

 of beneficial and fructifying rains. In the former the eye simply shows 

 the lightning flash, while in the latter it is surrounded by the curved Tlaloc 

 sign, or what is supposed to be the sign of the Tlaloc eye, though certainly 

 not limited to this deity. 



The figure in the lower division of Plate XXIV is evidently intended 

 to express the same idea as that in the lower division of XXV; but I am at 

 a loss to decide what deity is denoted. A god with four hands, as here 

 shown, is an anomaly in Mexican and Central American mythology. I 

 have failed to find any such represented in the Codices, though I have 

 looked through them somewhat carefully for this purpose. Nor have I 

 found any mention of such an one in any of the works I have at hand. 



Prof Edward S. Holden thinks he sees four hands to the figure on the 

 Leyden Stone, but I must confess I have been unable to find more than 

 two which appear to belong to the principal personage. He is of the opin- 

 ion that the figure on our plate is intended to represent the Mexican god of 

 war, Huitzilopochtli} It is possible that this surmise is correct, as it agrees 

 in several important respects with the dark figure in the upper division of 

 Plate XXV, which I think beyond doubt represents this deit}'. 



As the reader will find the characteristics and s3'mbols, and also a very 

 reasonable and probably correct interpretation of these given at length by 

 Bancroft in his Native Races, I will omit the mention of them here. I only 

 add that here we see the feathers, the shield, the snake belt, the arrows and 

 spear, and everything, even to the attitude, that betokens a warlike deity. 

 The accompanying serpent, which here clearly denotes a cloud, is not 

 wanting; the rain i^ovu-s down in fearful torrents, and on each side is the 



' "Studies of American Picture Writing"; in Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



