English: part 1 of 2 page 275 This is an idol found at Tula—the ancient capital of the Toltecs. The second figure represents the bottom of the statue,
and the whole appears to have been a Toad or Frog—the croaking annoyer of some marshy neighborhood, who was raised to the dignity of a divinity in stone and propitiated by the offer of an occasional sacrifice.
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