It is not claimed for these conclusions that they are more than approximate. The data relative to these deities is much too complex to permit of any more precise or dogmatic treatment, in fact at one time or another there was identification between them all; but with the above attempt at simplification in view we shall now endeavour to present the reader with a detailed account of each of these and other less important divinities who were regarded as in any way connected with the personification of the earth or the growth of the crops, their festivals and ritual. The earth-deities seem to have been prophetic and divinatory and to have been connected with medicine, like similar European and Asiatic goddesses. Some of them, like Itzpapalotl, share the butterfly symbol with the gods of fire, with whom they are frequently connected. They are also closely associated with the deer, a fertility animal, and the eagle, the sun-bird, and their victims were, like those of the sun and war deities, decked with eagle-down. TLAZOLTEOTL = “GODDESS OF DIRT” Territory: Huaxtec, Mixtec, Olmec. Minor Names: Tlaelquani = “Filth-eater.” Chicunaui acatl = “Nine Reed.” Teteo Innan = “Mother of the Gods.” Chiquacen acatl = “Six Reed.” Toci = “Our Grandmother.” Naui tecpatl = “Four Flint Knife.” Cocauic Xochitla = “Yellow Bloom.” Tlalli iyallo = “Heart of the Earth.” Iztac Xochitla = “White Bloom.” Ixcuine = “Four Faces.” Tonana Teumechaue = “Our mother, the goddess of the thigh-skin face-painting.” Calendar Places: Ruler of the fourteenth day, ocelotl, of the thirteenth week, ce olin. Seventh of the nine lords of the night. Compass Direction: West. Festivals: Ochpaniztli (“Feast of Brooms”) in the eleventh month. Symbols: A man eating excrement (“Dirt-eater”); a broom. Relationships: Mother of Centeotl; one of the Tzitzimimê. ASPECT AND INSIGNIA Codex Borgia.—Sheet 74: Here Tlazolteotl is depicted as naked, and accompanied by a snake. A patch of rubber appears near the mouth, and her head is bound by a fillet of unspun cotton. Behind the neck a feather ornament is seen, made of the blue plumage of the quail, and she also wears the golden nasal Huaxtec ornament usually seen in connection with the octli-gods. In the Codex Vaticanus B her naked body is painted white, with yellow longitudinal stripes, and she has the bifurcated nose-ornament of Xipe. Significantly, perhaps, the shape of her eye recalls that of the god of flaying, whose eye is usually a mere slit in the flayed human skin which he wears, and through the mask of which he is supposed to be looking. She wears the cotton fillet and ear-plug typical of her.