Perhaps the key to understanding this object is that this toad excretes a hallucinogenic substance, and Central Americans believed that it represented an earth goddess.

也许我们了解这条腰带的关键是，这种蟾蜍会分泌出一种致幻物质，而中美洲人视之为一位土地女神的化身。

The Virgin of Guadalupe, for instance, was still called Tonantzin, the indigenous earth goddess, by Indians, and the profusion of blood in Mexican iconography recalls the Aztec use of blood in ritual.

例如， 瓜达卢佩的圣母仍然被印第安人称为土著地球女神 Tonantzin，而墨西哥肖像画中大量的鲜血让人想起阿兹特克人在仪式中使用鲜血。