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Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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growth of the corn.4 The Planting Thanksgiving was called by a council of elders inwhose charge this festival was placed and lasted for a full day. Theaddresses to the Creator, however, were all given in the early morn- 1Ibid. p. 531. See also Kalm on bird pests, Ibid. p. 523, 527, 531. 2 The Aztecs called the corn goddess Tonacaygohua, She feeds us. She was sometimes called Centeotl. She was also regarded as the god-dess of the earth and was the most beloved deity worshiped by the ancientMexicans and was the only one that did not require the sacrifice of humanvictims. It is interesting to note that the Corn goddess was also calledTzinteotl, the original goddess. Her name changed to Xilonen, Iztacac-cuteotl, and Tlatlauhquicenteotl according to the various stages in thegrowth of the corn. 3 For a fuller description see American Anthropologist. New Ser. 1909.v. 11, no. 2. Parker, A. C. Seneca Medicine Societies. 4 Clark, J. H. V. Onondaga. Syracuse 1849. 1 -54. 28 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
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