[14-*] The word is derived from _tlatoa_, to speak for another, and its usual translation was “chief,” as the head man spoke for, and in the name of the gens or tribe. [14-†] The interesting account by Iglesias is printed in the Appendix to the _Diccionario Universal de Geographia y Historia_ (Mexico, 1856). Other writers testify to the tenacity with which the Mixes cling to their ancient beliefs. Señor Moro says they continue to be “notorious idolaters,” and their actual religion to be “an absurd jumble of their old superstitions with Christian doctrines” (in Orozco y Berra, _Geografia de las Lenguas de exico[TN-10]_, p. 176). [15-*] For instance, J. B. Carriedo, in his _Estudios Historicos del Estado Oaxaqueño_ (Oaxaca, 1849), p. 15, says the _nahualt_ was a ceremony performed by the native priest, in which the infant was bled from a vein behind the ear, assigned a name, that of a certain day, and a guardian angel or _tona_. These words are pure Nahuatl, and Carriedo, who does not give his authority, probably had none which referred these rites to the Zapotecs. [15-†] Juan de Cordova, _Arte en Lengua Zapoteca_, pp. 16, 202, 203, 213, 216. [16-*] Quoted in Carriedo, ubi suprá, p. 17. [16-†] _Hist. de las Indias Oc._, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 12. [17-*] So I understand the phrase, “figuras pintadas con zifras enigmaticas”[TN-11] [17-†] _Popoluca_ was a term applied to various languages. I suspect the one here referred to was the Mixe. See an article by me, entitled “Chontales and Popolucas; a Study in Mexican Ethnography,” in the _Compte Rendu_ of the Eighth Session of the Congress of Americanists, p. 566, _seq._ [17-‡] _Constit. Diocesan_, p. 19. [18-*] _Constitut. Diocesan_, Titulo vii, pp. 47, 48. [19-*] Rather with the Quetzalcoatl of the Nahuas, and the Gucumatz of the Quiches, both of which names mean “Feathered Serpent.” Mixcohuatl, the Cloud Serpent, in Mexican mythology, referred to the Thunder-storm. [19-†] In his Tzental Vocabulary, Father Lara does not give this exact form; but in the neighboring dialect of the Cakchiquel Father Ximenes has _quikeho_, to agree together, to enter into an arrangement; the prefix _zme_ is the Tzental word for “mother.”