Messico e America Centrale antichità, i sistemi di calendario e di storia; . ed per studio. I rilievi sulla parete posteriore sono,forse di una ancora più interessante la natura, ma purtroppo qui aX^ortion del banco è distrutto. È auspicabile che il signor Saville,che ora ha nuovamente avviato per Tepoxtian e Xochicalco, sarà soddisfacente bringliome calchi e rendere note queste rappresentazioni. Infine, in aggiunta a quanto sopra, le due tavole di pietra che werefound incorporata nella parete sud della terrazza loAver della piramide,sono di speciale importanza. Uno (c, figura 86) contiene il re hieroglyphof

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Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ed for study. The reliefs on the rear wall are, perhaps, of a still more interesting nature, but unfortunately here aX^ortion of the bench is destroyed. It is to be hoped that Mr Saville, who has now started again for Tepoxtian and Xochicalco, will bringliome satisfactory casts and make known these representations. Finally, in addition to the above, two stone tablets, which werefound built into the south wall of the loAver terrace of the pyramid, are of special importance. One (c, figure 86) contains the hieroglyphof King Ahuitzotl, who derived his name from a small ghostlike wateranimal, which, according to Mexican tales, played the role of a sortof nixy and was represented in this form. On the other slab a rab-bit is depicted, and beside it are 10 circles, which would indicate the3^ear 10 Tochtli, corresponding to the year 1502 of the Christian chro-nology, the last year of Ahuitzotrs reign, or the year of his death.Saville has interpreted these two tablets quite correctly, and he con-. a h c Fig. 8G. Glyphs of the king Auitzotl. eludes that the year of the erection of the temple and its builder werethus immortalized. This is probably correct, in which case, in truth, the ancient temple of Tepoxtian would be the only aboriginal struc-ture still standing in Mexico to which we can with probability assigna certain date . It would next be desirable to know to which god sacrifices Avereoffered in this place. Neither Rodriguez nor Saville have attemptedto answer this question. I am fortunately in a position to be ableto decide this matter beyond dispute. There was a class of deitiesamong the Mexicans which excited the special wonderment andabhorrence of the monks and the Spaniards generally. These werethe pulque gods, or the gods of drunkenness. As we say (in German)of a drunken man that he has got an ape so the Mexicans, ofcourse, with a doubtless wholly ditferent train of thought, spoke of arabbit

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