Huichol tribes, and, by some circumstance of evolution or imagery, came to symbolize for the Nahua the maize in the earlier stages of its ripeness, thus to some extent resembling Cinteotl. Payne and also Seler in some places seem to confound her festival with that of Chicomecoatl, and offer no reasons for thus traversing the statements of the older authorities, which
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