LIFE-FORM EST ART. 



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may be significant of the cardinal points, and to have a history something like the 

 ensuing : 



Fiffs. 132. 



o 



Aberrant. (||) 



(*) (+) it) (I) 



Composites suggesting tlie cardinal points, from Aztec design. 



These are by no means rare signs in the Dresden Codex. 



The use of the full-face radical as the head of the human figure, as seen in a 

 column of the Codex (see Fig. 133) is almost conclusive as to its real significance. 



Pig. 133. (H) 



We thus see that the full-faced Aztec radical may be either a Greek cross with- 

 out eye and mouth dots ; the latter, without the former, or both, or with the presence 

 of the cross with dots placed in radii from its re-entering angles. 



In illustration of the architectural radical being the result of a process different 

 from one leading to a hieratic character, we present two representations of what we 

 have interpreted to be full-face human head from the Aztec temples : 



Fig. 184. (**) 



Fig. 135. (ft) 



Full-faced human countenance in stone, from Aztec design. 



* From squatting figure of a man in Kings. Coll. (Dresden Codex.) f Kings. Coll. (Dupaix.) 



t Ibid (Dresden Codex. ) § Ibid. || Schoolcraft, I. c. VI, 576. 



H Kings. Coll. (Dresden Codex.) ** Catherwood, I. c. ft Ibid I. c. 



