[Aztlan] Venus signs

[Karen Bassie]

Gary, The Spinden chart is from 1928 so, of course, it is outdated and 
inaccurate. Many of the figures in the Spinden chart are also in the 
Thompson examples that I cited in my previous posting, but Thompson 
gives you the source of the illustration and its context so you know if 
you are at least comparing apples to apples.
Starry Deer Crocodile-Starry Deer Alligator, Cosmic Monster, and Milkway 
crocodile are all nicknames for the same beast.
The consensus is that the T510 sign (and its variations) is a generic 
symbol for a star or planet in certain contexts.
There is NO evidence that Cipactli was associated with Venus.
I think there is significant evidence that the Maya saw the Milky Way as 
a celestial river inhabited by a crocodile, and that the black rift of 
the Milky Way represented the mouth of this crocodile. If you are going 
to make the argument that Cipactli was parallel to the Maya Milky Way 
crocodile then you will have to find evidence that the Aztec also saw 
the Milky Way as a river with a crocodile in it and that they identified 
Cipactli as that crocodile. I know of no such evidence.