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Fig.3.3<br />

Couple named Ometecuhtli ("Two Lord") and Omecfüuatl ("Two Lady"),<br />

as a personified primordial creative force at the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of time<br />

Codex Borbonicus, ca. A.D. L525. Mexico, Aztec. Amate paper.<br />

Bibliothèque de I'Assemblée nationale français, Paris. Photo: Codex<br />

Borbonicus, L974, p.21, as Fig. 3, p. 188 <strong>in</strong><br />

Àzloctezuma, L992, "The Aztec Ma<strong>in</strong> Pyramid: Ritual Architecture at<br />

Tenochtitlan," <strong>in</strong> The Ancient Americøs: Art from Sacred Løndscapes,<br />

general ed. Richard F. Townsend and ed. Elizabeth P. Bensorç 1992.<br />

Fig.3.3

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