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The gods of Mexico

Note 2 — Chapter III · THE GREAT GODS

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Face-paint.—Blue and yellow horizontal stripes, the yellow known as piloechinolli (“face-painting of children”) made of children’s excrement, in allusion, perhaps, to his character of a young or new-born god. He occasionally wears the stellar mask,2 like Mixcoatl and Camaxtli.

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