Codex Dresdensis, p. 50. detail

Ending a series of pages about the planet Venus, this page pictures the diety seated on planetary symbols, with green lips, wearing a skull headress, a death-eye collar and death circles on his body. Before him with bent knee stands the maize god holding a vase.

J. Eric S. Thompson, A Commentary on the Dresden Codex (Philadelphia, 1972), p. 69.

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