Codex Borgia (Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl). Folios from the Mayan Divination and Ritual Manuscript. 1500s.
The Codex Borgia (Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl). Mictlantecuhtli & Quetzalcoatl. 1898.
Mictlantecuhtli (left), god of death, lord of the underworld, and Quetzalcoatl (right), god of wisdom, life, knowledge, morning star, patron of the winds and light, the lord of the West. Together they symbolize life and death in this Aztec ritual and divinatory manuscript written before the Spanish conquest of Mexico.