IXTLILTON = “THE LITTLE BLACK FACE”
- Minor Name: Tlaltetecuin = “He who strikes the Earth.”
- Area of Worship: Mexican Valley.
- Relationship: Brother of Macuilxochitl.
- Symbol: The toualli, the four balls or beads, seen in the Sahagun MS. and in the Codex Magliabecchiano (sheet 63) as a shield-device.
- Calendar Place: Day ome tochtli.
- Compass Direction: South.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer.—Sheet 24: Here the god is represented opposite Macuilxochitl. He wears on his head a white-fringed cloth, such as is worn by Tezcatlipocâ, having on the top a bunch of downy feathers with a crest of four plumes ending in white tips. He has a collar made of vertebræ or animals’ claws, and on the upper arm a ring, furnished on one of its sides with a projection tapering to a point. The body is white and the face is painted black and white round the mouth. Seler in his Commentary on this MS. (p. 127) thinks that the white ball or disk covered with a radial design, and held by