[Aztlan] Chac or Principal Bird Deity

[D. M. Urquidi]

Folks:

The first photo with the mini house under it is the clearest of all.
What I was reminded of when I saw it was a different mini house with a roof of feahers. I do not remember at this point where it is located, but the two are so similar IF the feathers are as in Aztec, seem to represent fire.
The mask above this particular mini house represents smoke from the top and coming out of the sides of the mask, as if the mini house roof had been made of stone and not of fronds and its contents had burned but not the house itself.

Dea

> Nunnery Quadrangle: South Building [June 12, 2004]
> "...the wide frieze of the South Building is very sober, with some 
> stylized huts, dominated by large masks, placed in a "latticework" 
> frame."
> Paul Gendrop, Rio Bec, Chenes, and Puuc Styles in Maya Architecture, p. > 194

> The south building has mosaic "masks" adorning
> representations of traditional Maya thatched houses.
> 
> http://www.mayaruins.com/uxmal/j2_1824.html
> 
> These "masks" have snub-noses and vegetation
> growing from their heads - more representative of the
> bas-relief face at the base of Bonampak Stela 1 (often
> called a "witz" or mountain) rather than a
> traditional "chac mask" nor any representations of
> the PBD.


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