Note 254 — PART III. GRAPHIC SYSTEMS AND LITERATURE. (continued 2)

Tzontemoc, a compound of tzontli, hair, and temoa, to fall; mictlan, locative from mictli, to die; tecutli, lord, noble. For a description of this deity see Sahagun, Historia de la Nueva España, Lib. iii, Appendix, chap. I. I have elsewhere suggested that the falling hair had reference to the long slanting rays of the setting sun. See above, p. 146.