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No. 3, 6, 6, 7^ A child newly born is repre- 
sented four times. The hair^ which rises like 
two horns on the top of the head, indicates that 
it is a girl. The child is sucking ; the umbili- 
cal cord is cutting ; she is presented to the 
divinity ; and her eyes are touched as a sign of 
benediction. Fabrega asserts, that the seated 
figures. No. 5 and 7, represent two priests. He 
thinks he recognizes, by the helmet of No. 7j 
the high priest of the god Tonacateuctli. 
No. 4. The representation of a human sacri- 
fice. A priest, whose figure is almost lost under 
a monstrous disguise, is tearing out the heart of 
the victim ; his left hand is armed with a club : 
the naked body of the victim is painted ; spots 
are marked on it, by which the skin of the 
jaguar, or American tiger, were meant to be 
imitated ; on the left is another priest (topiltzinj^ 
who pours the blood of the heart plucked out 
upon the image of the sun placed in a niche in a 
temple. I should not have engraved this hideous 
scene, if the disguise of the sacrificer did not 
present certain remarkable analogies with the 
Ganesa of the Hindoos, which do not seem acci- 
dental. The Mexicans made use of helmets, 
which imitated the form of the head of a serpent, 
a crocodile, or a jaguar. In the mask of the sa- 
crificer, we discover the resemblance of the trunk 
of an elephant, or some pachydermatous animal 
resembling it in the configuration of the head, 
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