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Fig.3.7<br />

Fig.3.7<br />

The earth personified as the earth goddess Tlazonlteotl (or an<br />

impersonator) wear<strong>in</strong>g flayed sk<strong>in</strong> and giv<strong>in</strong>g birth to a warrior.<br />

Aztec Codex Borbonícus, c. L525.<br />

Amate paPer. Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale français, Paris.<br />

Photo: Codex Borbonicus, 1974, p.L3, as Fig. 10, p. 180 <strong>in</strong><br />

Townsend, 'l-992, "The Renewal of Nature at the Temple of Tlaloc," <strong>in</strong><br />

The Ancient Americas: Art from Søcred Løndscapes, ed. by Richard F.<br />

Townsend, 1,992.

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