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CHAPTER VIII

# THE OCTLI OR PULQUE (DRINK) GODS

GENERAL

  • Name: Centzon Totochtin = “Four Hundred Rabbits.”
  • Area of Worship: Mexico generally.
  • Festival: The day ome tochtli (“two rabbit”) in the sign ce mazatl (“one deer”), a movable feast.

ASPECT AND INSIGNIA

The constituent elements of the insignia of the octli-gods may be generally described as follows:

(1) A two-coloured face-painting, the front half of the facial profile (i.e. the middle part of the face) being painted red in its entire length, both sides at the temples black (or dark green), or else black with longish yellow spots.

(2) A nasal plate, handle-shaped, the ends involuted outwardly, or crescent-shaped, the golden Huaxtec nose-ornament, yaca-metztli. It is usually marked on all articles dedicated to the octli-gods.

(3) A four-cornered ear-pendant, which agrees substantially with that of the Rain-god.

(4) A neck-ornament falling far down, loose in texture, made of malinalli grass fibre.

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