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Symbolic “One-Leggedness”: Pacal as Tezcatlipoca

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

P. M. Fitzer
P. M. Fitzer*
Affiliation:
Doctors Clinic, 7320 Warwick Blvd., Newport News, VA 23607 and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23501
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Abstract

It is suggested that the portrayal of a Maya ruler as lame represents a transformation to the god Tezcatlipoca, sometimes known as "one leg." God K of the manikin scepter is a continued reference to this transformation in Late Classic times.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 163 - 166
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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