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" ... is hewn out of one solid block of basalt, nine feet high, its outlines giving an idea of a deformed human figure, uniting all that is horrible in the tiger and rattle-snake : instead of arms it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery... "
The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ... - Page 189
by Josiah Conder - 1830
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 12

1848 - 704 pages
...composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating iu the wings of a vulture. Its feet are those of the...hearts, hands, and skulls, and fastened together by the entrails. It has evidently been painted in natural colours, which must have added greatly to the terrible...
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Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico: Containing Remarks on the ...

William Bullock - Mexico - 1824 - 576 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...hearts, hands, and skulls, and fastened together by the entrails, — the deformed breasts of the idol only remaining uncovered. It has evidently been painted...
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The London Magazine, Volume 10

1824 - 666 pages
...it is supplied with two large I serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...hearts, hands, and skulls, and fastened together by the entrails,— the deformed breasts of the idol only re. maining uncovered. It has evidently been During...
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Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico: Containing Remarks on the ...

William Bullock - Mexico - 1824 - 586 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...are those of the tiger, with claws extended in the aot of seizing its prey, and between them lies the head of another rattle-snake, which seems descending...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 22

1824 - 602 pages
...serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting liiaun-jr, and the sides terminating in the wings of a vulture,...those of the tiger, with claws extended in the act of se zing its prey, and between them lies the head of another rattle-snake, which seems descending from...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 22; Volume 40

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snake;, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...wings of a vulture. Its feet are those of the tiger, witlrclaws extended in the act of seizing its prey, and between them lies the head of another rattle-snake,...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 2

Theology - 1825 - 502 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...wings of a vulture. Its feet are those of the tiger, wiih claws extended in the act of seizing its prey, and between them lies the head of another rattlesnake,...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and ...

James Bell - Geography - 1831 - 778 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...accord with its horrid form, having a large necklace runiposed of human hearts, hands, and skulle, and fastened together by the entrails, — the deformed...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical ..., Volume 5

James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 910 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents, and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting/ manner, and the sides terminating...hearts, hands, and skulls, and fastened together by the entrails, — the deformed breasts of the idol only remaining uncovered. It has evidently been painted...
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...it is supplied with two large serpents ; and its drapery is composed of wreathed snakes, interwoven in the most disgusting manner, and the sides terminating...between them lies the head of another rattlesnake, which seelns descending from the body of the idol. Its decorations accord with its horrid form, having a...
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