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temples which he destroyed in the island in 1697, sd eere er an idol of emerald a span long, 
beri says the chronicler, * he appropriated to hin 
may be observed of the figure engraved on this poet that fo speak, among American na- 
dias was the verbal as well as the symbolical expression of life or being, as is to see or to 
i Fig. 56 i 
* Hieroglyphics” on Chalchihuitl globe. Full size, 
breathe, ® or to eat, among eris Betions in various parts of the world. 'The projecting tongue in 
t de iile | dm living God or man; he who 
n talk, and therefore lives. In this 
"ud ince, the lax and drooping tongue Fig. 59. 
heightens the dit of death which the Fig. 58. == 
— eye in part conveys. 
. 64 is an engraving of a stone 
A or adze of hard green stone, 
parallel with e r 
cutt e edge is slig curved out- Chalchihuiti 
ward, implying that, i intended for 
Peai service, it was an it is to be y d that it was bolically, in the 
Pheirhihnit? Anlat 
bin of distinction or ornament. It was found in an ancient grave in Costa Rica. Q9 ruling 
ca of Peru carried an axe instead of a passin as one of his insignia of dominion.* 
* In Greece stone weapons s of jade or nephrite are sometimes found, which the common peo- 
Lo call “thunderboltsy and hold in D abire qtu in Nasan, New Pro of the * London Athe- 
m^ found a ilar object, called by the same name, in nrg New vide S in the Ba- 
na Ie Jeha cs ES s polished ithe: fia attened, bet oint eå a with a broad cutting 
edge at the other, and r a ad by the natives as a pre ative rb Thiele. Another — 
respondent of the same publication states that he ands a aiat object in Jamaica forty year: 
ago, e called a thunde — It was kept in an earthern jar filled with water, ded wass esi 
posed to keep thew water 
