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approach sympathetically beauty that is overcast with 
an incomprehensible religion. When we can bring our- 
selves to feel the serpent symbolism of the Mayan 
artists as we feel, for instance, the conventional halo 
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Fig. 30. Sculpture on Front of Lintel at Yaxchilan showing 
Man holding Two-Headed Serpent with a Grotesque God’s Head 
in each of its Mouths. 
Fig. 31. Types of Human Heads on the Lintels of Yaxchilan. 
that crowns the ideal head of Christ, then we shall be 
able to recognize the truly emotional qualities of Mayan 
sculptures. 
It is generally recognized that design to be successful 
must contain order of various sorts (in measurements, 
shapes, directions, tones, colors, ete.). In the simpler 
forms of decorative art the restrictions of technical 
process, as in basketry, may impose order, but in free- 
hand sculpture it must come from an educated sense of 
beauty involving selection and the reproduction of the 
