[1] Mexico, Oct. 15, 1850.
[2] Large hollowed stones used by the women for bruising maize.
[3] The Kiché words are onomatopoetic--"holi, holi, huqi, huqi."
[4] Zipac signifies "Cockspur," and I take the name to signify also
"Thrower-up of earth." The connection is obvious.
[5] Near Vera Paz.
[6] Hurakan.
[7] "History of the Fur Trade," Mackenzie, p. 83.
[8] Schoolcraft, "Indian Tribes," i. p. 266.
[9] Cushing, "Zuñi Creation Myths."
[10] See note at end.
[11] "History of the New World."
[12] Oviedo, "Historia del l'Indie," lib. vi. cap. iii.
[13] Sahagun, lib. ii. ch. ii.
[14] "Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru" ("Religions Ancient
and Modern" series).
[15] Oviedo, Brasseur de Bourbourg.
[16] See Brinton, "Myths of the New World," chap. ii.
[17] Loskiel, "Ges. der Miss. der evang. Brüder."
[18] "Rel. de la Nouv. France," 1636.
[19] J. W. Fewkes in Jour. Amer. Folk-lore, 1892, p. 33; F. H. Cushing
in "Amer. Anthropologist," 1892, p. 303 et seq.
[20] In the Mexican text the Spanish word "diablo" has been
interpolated by the Mexican scribes, as no Mexican word for "devil"
exists. The scribe was, of course, under priestly influence; hence the
"diablo."
[21] This passage obviously applies to a descriptive dance emblematic
of sunrise.