Show A aale af GODS A poor artist allows uis tion of statues to be sold TOK sept 4 the gods of a perished race for centuries by millions of human beings are to be sold at auction for a debt they are deities of the azteca aztecs and were collected by Huer feno Ab idiana a poor artist who has allowed them to remain on exhibition hibi tion for three years having no place to keep them some of them are of enormous size and standing in the main hall of the second floor of the institution and form one of its main attractions this collection has been seized on an attachment for debt and will be offered at public bale to satisfy the claim one of the deities in the collection the goddess of death was discovered in 1791 where it had lain interred since the time of the conquest it was the opinion of humboldt that this and other idols were buried bythe soldiers of cortez to hide them from the site of the azteca aztecs that they might the more readily forgot them and embrace the christian religion it is considered more logical however to suppose it was hidden by the azteca aztecs themselves to prevent ita falling into the hands of the conqueror is of a woman the face covered by the heads of two snakes whose bodies twine about her another piece is a stone which was encountered in the principal placa of the city of mexico in 1791 a slight depth below the surface on ita face is sculptured the image of the sun to whom it is dedicated on the convex surface of the piece are fifteen groups of two persons each showing the victorious warrior clutching by the hair the various prisoners the flatter representing as many great tribes the names of which are represented in accompanying each one The conqueror is tizoc a king of mexico who occupied the ahrone from 1481 to 1486 and the monument commemorates the victories 0 this monarch another piece was discovered in yucatan and is supposed to be the statue of charles mool which the king of the azteca aztecs reared to the memory of his wife the queen a gigantic comans womans head resembling egyptian is believed to have had a place in the great temple |