If I recall correctly, it's a goddess riding the deer. I'll see if I can look up the reference, but it may take a while.
Never mind, it looks like Hashbaz gave you the name of the goddess, although he then screwed the pooch by speculating that this probably meant humans rode deer, too. Snort.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
Rollout photography, which allows the scenes to be viewed in their entirety, facilitates their study. 4 The presence of glyphs on these vases also aids our investigation. As is often the case with Maya artifacts, the personages on the vases are identified by name glyphs. These names combine a number with an image of an animal or object. The numbers are written in the Mesoamerican bar and dot system in which a bar is five and each dot is one. In the rollout above, seen from left to right are five figures: A to E. Identified by the name glyph positioned by his feet, Figure A is 9-Jaguar. He wears a monstrous bird headdress and rides (or grapples with) an animal that may be a strange peccary or hornless deer, recognized by its cloven hooves and long ears and snout.
It's not talking about the same image, but same general idea.
And this:
25 - Zip - Protector of the Deer (according to myth the Deer created the Vagina of the Moon Goddess by stepping on Her abdomen and then she was able to bear children of the Sun God. Note the sole of deer's foot looks like a Vagina). Zip would deceive hunters to believe he was shooting a deer when in fact it was a iguana (a sacred animal of Itzam Na; to kill one incites the Death penalty). To those who gained Zip's Favor meant a successful hunt.
beastie wrote:If I recall correctly, it's a goddess riding the deer. I'll see if I can look up the reference, but it may take a while.
Never mind, it looks like Hashbaz gave you the name of the goddess, although he then screwed the pooch by speculating that this probably meant humans rode deer, too. Snort.
Yep, I was just going to post that here.
I'll help you out - she's the Moon Goddess. And the dude riding a peccary is the god Itzamnaaj. And the deer as a beast of burden is a "mythological" scene.
Thanks anyways!
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