Les anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde : Voyages et explorations au Mexique et en Amérique centrale à partir de 1857-1882 Toltèque . s, l'autre doit l'être aussi, pour elle couldnot être le résultat d'un simple accident. J'ai comparés qu'theshafts, pour la simple raison que la colonne de Toula n'a pas de capitale. Le bas-relief onyZ &gt ; la capitale de l'otherconsists standingfigure d'un upraisedarms theentablature .avec l'appui ; il wearslarge hugefeathers bracelets, former sa coiffure, ses pieds arecovered avec celle-rapide chaussures sur le cou-de-cuir de bya knot, un isaround collarof pierres son cou, arichly

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The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . s Toltec, the other must be so too, for it couldnot be the result of mere accident. I have only compared theshafts, for the simple reason that the Tula column has no capital. The bas-relief onyZ > the capital of the otherconsists of a standingfigure .with upraisedarms supporting theentablature; he wearslarge bracelets, hugefeathers form his head-dress, his feet arecovered with shoes fast-ened on the instep bya leather knot, a collarof precious stones isaround his neck, arichly embroideredmaxtli falls to the ground, and he wears the long fiowing beardcharacteristic of Ouetzalcoatl. The two bas-reliefs given opposite are from pillars inthe sanctuary. They represent figures in gala costumes, one of which is distinguished by a long beard, and all havethe aquiline nose ascribed to the Toltecs. These pillars areoccupied by three bas-reliefs, a large one in the centre andtwo smaller at each side of it. The central relief is a life-size figure of a priest, to judge from the total absence of. YUCATEC CAPITAL AT CIIICHEN-iTZA. Chichen-Itza. 345 arms about all the figures on these pillars. The caryatideson the smaller reliefs, notably the lower one, have doublespirals over the mouth, presumably a symbol of wind andspeech. We noticed in a former chapter this spiral aboutQuetzalcoatl on the outer relief of the altar in the Templeof the Cross at Palenque. All these caryatides representlong-bearded men, whose type is identi-cal with those on theTula relief, as maybe seen by the mostsuperficial comparisonof the two. But isthe spiral an emblemof speech ? That it isso may be assumedfrom the upper carya-tid, which only sup-porting the entablaturehas no spiral aboutthe mouth, while thelower one not onlybears aloft the centralfigure and the edifice, but it seems to carry, to create and breathe life into the whole, as the emblem ofcivilisation. At least so it struck us when

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