Adoratorio
This represents the “Adoratorio or Alta Casa, No. 3” of Palenque. This is nothing else than the temple of the god Huitzilopochtli and of his equal, Tlaloc.
The Palenquean Group of the Cross
The Palenquean Group of the Cross
Huitzilopochtli (side)
Huitzilopochtli (side)
Yucatec Stone
Yucatec Stone
Tablet at Palenque
Tablet at Palenque
Huitzilopochtli (front)
Huitzilopochtli (front) Maya God of War
Statue at Copan
Statue at Copan
Maya Rain God
This I take to be the sorcerer Tlaloc. He is blowing the wind from his mouth; he has the eagle in his head-dress, the jaw with grinders, the peculiar eye, the four Tlaloc dots over his ear and on it, the snake between his legs, curved in the form of a yoke (this is known to be a serpent by the conventional crotalus signs of jaw and rattles on it in nine places), the four Tlaloc dots again in his head-dress, etc. He has a leopard skin on his back (the tiger was the earth in Mexico) and his naked feet have peculiar anklets which should be noticed.
Huitzilopochtli (back)
Huitzilopochtli (back) Mayan God of War
Maya War God
Maya War God This represents Huitzilopochtli, or rather, the Yucatec equivalent of this Aztec god.
Statue at Copan
Statue at Copan