ants. The single exception alluded
to is on Plate 15 of the Cortesian Codex; here the god bears upon his
back the traveling pack, indicating the vocation of which he is the
special guardian.

It occurs unconnected with the figure of the deity only on Plates IX*,
XIV*, XV*, and XXV* of the Manuscript Troano. In the last the figure of
the god is in the same division, but in the adjoining compartment. In
Plate XV* it apparently refers to the idol the priest is carving, which
is probably a black one intended to represent this god. Landa,[358-1]
speaking of the artists carving idols from wood, says:

They took also that which they used for scarifying their ears and
drawing blood from them, and also the instruments which they needed
for sculpturing their _black divinities_.

Its appearance in Plate XIV* is apparently in connection with the
ceremonies relating to the manufacture of idols. Neither the symbol nor
the god it represents is to be fond in the Dresden Codex.

[Illustration: No. 35. _a_ _b_ _c_]

_Kukulcan._ (?) This is the symbol of the long nosed god, which Dr.
Schellhas designates "the god with the snake-like tongue," of which
representations appear so frequently in the different codices (see
Fig. 381).

The snake-like appendages hanging from the side of the mouth may possibly
be intended to represent a curved fang rather than part of a divided
tongue. A remarkable figure on Plate 72 of the Borgian Codex deserves
special notice here. This is the representation of a deity supposed by
Kingsborough and others to be Quetzalcoatl, in which the head is as
represented in Fig. 382. Here we see both tongue and fang, and also an
eye precisely of the form found in the Maya symbol.

[Illustration: FIG. 381. The long nosed god (Kukulcan) or "god with the
snake-like tongue."]

Whether Kukulcan is the god indicated is uncertain, unless he is
identical with the long nosed god, or Maya Tlaloc, so frequently figured
in the Manuscript Troano and the Cortesian Manuscript. It is only
necessary to compare the figures on Plates 2 to 5 of the latter codex
with the long nosed, green figures of Plates XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, XXX, and
XXXI of the former to be convinced that they represent the same deity,
and that this is the Maya Tlaloc or rain god, whatever may be the name by
which he was known.

As the symbol which accompanies these is the same as that found in
connection with the "snake tongued," long