22 JACKSON, Shell-Trumpets and their Distribution. 



In the same work and elsewhere mogauni, the Fasting 

 Man, Ruler of the Nineteenth Day-count quiauitl, " Rain," 

 is figured blowing a conch-shell and associated with Tona- 

 tiuh, the Sun God. 8 ' A reproduction is also given of an 

 illustration from the pictorial manuscript in the Florentine 

 Biblioteca Nazionale showing Xochipilli, the God of 

 Flowers and Food Supplies, being carried in procession 

 preceded by a priest blowing a conch-shell trumpet. 88 



Further illustrations of the use of the shell-trumpet 

 are seen in Codex Borgia 14, where Tep eyo I 'lotli, the Heart 

 of the Mountains, God of the Caves, is figured blowing 

 the shell-horn, and in Codex Vaticanus, No. 3,773, sheet 

 22, where the same god wears the shell-horn as a breast 

 ornament and a second horn lies before him at the 

 threshold of the temple. 89 



The remarkable identity in the Hindu and Mexican 

 use of shell-trumpets in temple worship and harvest rites, 

 and the association of the shell with the God of the Moon, 

 has recently been pointed out in a previous article. 90 



Since this paper has been printed I have discovered 

 that on the appearance of De Soto's soldiers in 1539 

 the Indians of Florida and the Chickasaw country were 

 roused to action by the blowing of horns and conch-shells, 

 and the beating of drums. 91 



37 Seler, op. cit,, p. 185, fig. 393, and sheets 28 and 94. The shell is 

 probably Fasciolaria gigantea. 



ss Seler, op. cit., p. 162, fig. 363. The shell looks like a reversed Cassis 

 cornuta. This species is common to the West Indies, Facific Islands, etc., 

 and is used as a trumpet in Papua and other Pacific Islands. 



89 Seler, op. cit., p. 103, figs. 295, and p. 105, sheet 22. Here the shell 

 is like that of the Fasting-man, i.e., Fasciolaria gigantea. 



00 Jackson, "The Aztec Moon-cult and its relation to the Chank-cult 

 of India." Manch. Memoirs {Lit. and Phil. Soc), vol. 60, pt. ii., 1916. 



01 Grace King, " De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida," 

 New York and London, 1914, pp. 39 and 187. 



