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HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTINGS 
Ijr THE 
BORG IAN MUSEUM, 
AT VELETRI. 
PLATE XXXVII. 
We have already=^ spoken of the arrangement 
of the Codex Mexicanns^ 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. 1. (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 
carne^ or Tonacacihua (from tonacayo^ our flesh, 
* Plate 27, page 34. 
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