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HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTINGS 



IN THE 



BORGIA TV MUSEUM, 



AT VELETRI. 

 PLATE XXXVII. 



We have already* spoken of the arrangement 

 of the Codex Mexicanus, preserved in the Bor- 

 gian Museum. As we cannot hope to see the 

 whole of this Mexican ritual published, I have 

 brought together on the same plate a great num- 

 ber of figures, remarkable for their forms, and 

 their relations to the manners of a people both 

 superstitious and ferocious. 



No. L (Cod. Borg. fol. 11, MSS Fabreg*. 

 No. 18). The mother of mankind, the serpent 

 woman, Cihuacohuatl, whom the first missiona- 

 ries denote by the name of Senora de nuestra 

 came, or Tonacacihua (from tonacayo, our flesh, 



* Piute 27, page 34. 

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