16 Biologia Centrali-Americana. Archæology, edited by F. Ducane Godman,
London.
17 The most striking example of this is in the Palace House, at
Palenqne, all wall-holes of which are tau-shaped. An elaborate
stucco ornamentation, richly colored, encloses two upright taus
surrounded by raised borders. One is a deep opening in the wall; the
other, next to it, is filled in and exhibits a horizontal line
resting on a vertical one. There can be no doubt that a profound
symbolical meaning was expressed by the entire motif, which has been
admirably reproduced by Mr. A. P. Maudslay (Biologia
Centrali-Americana, Archæology, part VI, pl. 18).
18 Veröffentlichungen aus dem Königlichen Museum für Völkerkunde, IV
band, I heft. 1895. p. 5.
19 Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarias Reales, Lisbon, 1609; also
translation by Sir Clements B. Markham, issued by the Hakluyt
Society. Rites and Laws of the Incas (accounts by Molina,
Salcamayhua, Avila and Ondegardo), translated by Sir Clements B.
Markham; also Cieza de Leon, Herrera, etc. and MS. of Padre Anello
Oliva.
20 Attention is called to a curious error in the original text by
Arriaga, quoted by Rivero and Tschudi. Arriaga states that the two
statues stood back to back, but he makes the woman look toward the
“poniente” and the man to the “occidente,” thus making both figures
face the west. As “poniente” is the current Spanish phrase for the
west, it is evident that the author made a slip in the use of the
classical term, and intended to say that the man faced the
“oriente.”
21 The Terra-cotta Heads of Teotihuacan, American Journal of
Archaeology, Baltimore, 1886.
22 For this valuable list I am indebted to the kindness of Sir Clements
B. Markham, the President of the Royal Geographical Society of Great
Britain, who generously allowed me to study some of his MS. notes on
Ancient Peru.
23 “From what can be gathered and conjectured in considering the
traditions of the present time, it is not more than 350 to 400 years
since the Incas only possessed and ruled over the valley of Cuzco as
far as Urcas, a distance of six leagues and to the valley of Yucay,
which is not more than 5 leagues.... The historical period cannot be
placed further back than 400 years at the earliest” (Polo de
Ondegardo 1550-1600).