Representation of deities of the Maya manuscripts (1904)
Schellhas, Paul, 1859- · Cambridge, Mass. : Pub. by the Museum · leaf 37
wed individual. Furthermore god E has nothing to do with the powers of the underworld; he is a god of life, of prosperity and fruitfulness; symbols of death are never found in connection with him. Brin- ton calls this god Ghanan, equivalent to Kan ; it is possible, too, that he is identical with a… … This is a deity closely related to the death-god A, resembling the Aztec Xipe, and may, I think, without hesitation be re¬ garded simply as the god of human sacrifice, perhaps, even more generally, as the god of death by violence. His hieroglyph
