The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-10-14
Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour.

tlan cross of mahogany, erected in re-
cent years
The cross is imbedded in cement
foot thick. On top of it there has been
nailed part of weather vane, includ-
ing the brass arrow and the brass let
ters and S, all risidly held together.
The arrow and letters were taken
from the city hall of the Mexican city
of 1xhuatlan eight years ago when the
Otomtes captured it. Not knowing the
real significance of the articles, the
savages made the next best use of
them that they could.
At each corner of the paved area over
the tomb stands n sculptured stone.
one of these stones is needle shaped
and over eight feet high, having many
allegorical figures inscriptions and
heroglyphics. Another represents a
prince, third wise man and the
fourth lady of high degree minus her
head
So far there is nothing to indicate
that the ancient Otomites were as
lavish as the Aztecs in the sacrifice of
human beings to the gods. That hui
doubt, as many an underground cham
Der filled with the skeletons of victims
will attest.
In one way the Otomites of old differ
ed from the Mayas and Aztecs. The
conclusions of their sacrificial ceremonies
consisted in casting the bodies of the
victims into the hole which penetrated
the tower from top to bottom and con-
nected with the subterranean PASSAGE
ways. A great part of this hole is still
in perfect condition, and the proximity
of its mouth to the sacrlficial altar in
dicates what its purpose was. At the
bottom of the hole attendants of the
priests disposed of the remains of the
sacrificed.
The sculptures show that the Oto-
mites of antiquity pertained more near
ly to the white race than to the Indian,
or chocolate colored. The faces have
features n great deal less Indian in
type than those of statues found in the
Maya ruins of Yucatan. All the fig
ures show craniums rounded and full,
indicating ample brain development.
While the foreheads do not manifest
by height any very lofty thinking, by
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of the temples, they impress one with
the quickness of perception and the
slowness of judgment of the race. In
shape the eyes resemble those of eau
casians more than of the Hlndoos. in
this particular differing radically from
those of the AZtecs and relatively from
those of the Mayas.
The CheekbOnes do not bulge proInI-
nently. II is however. the nose which
proclaims, more than any other feature
of the sculhtured Otomite faces. the
racial superiority of this people over
contemporary Aztecs and Mayas.
The OtOmite nose was straight, like
that of the Romans, to the point. from
which the nostris of little less than
ordinary thickness sloped upward
slightly, but plainly. If the point had
been brought forward ana upward
little the nose would have been per-
fectly Roman.
The mouths Of the ancient Otomitos
were smaller ana better formed than
those Of the Aztccs aud Muyas II Is
only IN the Jaws, whose excessive de-
yelopmeut Indicates that brutal deter
mination which characterized the two
other dominant rccs Of Mexico, that
any trait ~ nferprity Is 10 bee noted,
aud II h. worry much less remarkable
than that evidenced by the rulerH of
AnnhuHr and furllan
There are many reasons Tor believing
that the Otpmilrs were allied 60 the
white race. Their descendants living
to-day in Tfayp are among the alrrHt
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