(5) A crown of heron-feathers, such as is worn by the Rain-god, but here combined with the cuecaluitoncatl, Quetzal’s neck-ornament made of dark feathers, with some projecting arara plumes.
(6) A stone axe as a weapon.
The most striking of these objects are the first two. So characteristic are they of the octli-gods, that a juxtaposition of red and black lines on a tilmatli is explained in the Codex Magliabecchiano as “manta de dos conejos,” or shoulder-covering of the Two-rabbit octli-god.1
ALLUSIONS TO THE OCTLI- GODS IN GENERAL
Sahagun, speaking of the octli-gods,2 says that Tezcatzoncatl3 was the parent or brother of the rest, who were called Yiauhtecatl, Izquitecatl, Acolua, Tlilhua, Patecatli, Toltecatl, Papaztac, Tlaltecayoua, Ome tochtli, Tepuztecatl, Chimapaleuecatl, and Cohuatzincatl.
One of the hymns in Sahagun’s collection alludes as follows to the octli-gods:
In Colhuacan in fear
Fear has his home.
The God in the Palace, Tezcatzonco,
He was dealt with, therefore he wept (the fire wept?).
Not so, not so (shall it be) (saith he)
The God was dealt with, therefore he wept.
The God in the Palace Axalaco,
He was dealt with, therefore he wept.