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The next is a Sacrificial Yoke, similar to the one described at page 121.
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The two following figures are those of Serpents, ten and nineteen inches in diameter—and carved from basalt. They were no doubt connected with the worship of the god Quetzalcoatl, which I have heretofore described to you.
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