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Status of Ololiuhqui in Mexico
The inclined plane in front of the leaning human figure must be a metate. It follows that the face
must be that of a woman. Dr. Borhegyi and I went to see the artifact once more: it was a woman!
A young woman, for her breasts were only budding, a doncella. How exciting it is to make such a
discovery as this: a theme that we find in the contemporary Mixteca, and in the Sierra Mazateca,
and in the Zapotec country, is precisely the same as we find recorded in Jacinto de la Serna and in
the records of the Santo Oficio. Again it is precisely the same (if our interpretation of the silent
witness in the New York studio of Mr. Namuth be correct) as in a stone carving that dates back
perhaps 2500 years !
Abbreviations :
NOTES
Picietl | Peyotl | Teonanacatl
Pipiltzintzintli | Ololiuhqui | Tlitliltzen
AGN: Archive General de la Nacion, ramo Inquisicion.
AB: Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran: Medicina y Magia, 1955, Mexico.
Later edition, Institute Nacional Indigenista, 1963.1
(A thoughtful monograph with numerous quotations from
AGN, indispensable for every student of its subject.)
1. vide, e.g., AGN, vol. 340, folios 354-359. RETURN
2. The Caribs were also called Canibs or Calibs. From 'Canib' the English-speaking world derived
'cannibal', which it prefers to 'anthropophage'.
Shakespeare in his Tempest took his foul monster Caliban from the 'Calibs'. RETURN
3. There is a well known sentence in Sahagun, Bk. X, Chapter XXIX, 2, that is usually read as
follows:
'Hay otra hierba come tunas de tierra que se llama peyotl ...'
According to Professor Charles E. Dibble, the Florentine Codex, folios 129v-130r, reads thus:
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