[38-†] “Dass der Gott Tepeyollotl im Zapotekenlande und weiter südwärts seine Wurzeln hat, und dem eigentlichen Aztekischen Olymp fremd ist, darüber kann kein Zweifel mehr obwalten.” See Dr. Seler’s able discussion of the subject in the _Compte-Rendu_ of the Seventh International Congress of Americanists, p. 559, _seq._ The adoption of subterranean temples was peculiarly a Zapotecan trait. “Notandose principalmente en muchos adoratorios de los Zapotecos, estan los mas de ellos cubiertos, ò en subterraneos espaciosos y lòbregos.” Carriedo, _Estudios Historicos_, Tom. i, p. 26. [39-*] _Constituciones Diocesanas_, pp. 9, 10. [39-†] Gage, _A New Survey of the West Indies_, pp. 389, 393. [39-‡] _Teatro Mexicano_, Tratado iii, cap. 11. Mr. Bandelier has called attention to the naming of one of the principal chiefs among the Aztecs, _Tlilancalqui_, “Man of the Dark House,” and thinks it related to the Votan myth. _Twelfth Annual Report of the Peabody Museum_, p. 689. [40-*] Herrera, _Historia de las Indias Occidentales_, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 14. [40-†] Villa Señor, _Teatro Americano_, Lib. v, cap. 38 (Mexico, 1747). Father Cavo adds that there were signs of human sacrifices present, but of this I can find no evidence in the earlier reports. Comp. Cavo, _Los Tres Siglos de Mexico durante el Gobierno Españal[TN-14]_, Tom. ii, p. 128. [40-‡] _Teatro Americano_, Lib. ii, cap. 11; Lib. iii, cap. 13. [41-*] See Mühlenpfordt, _Mexico_, Bd. ii, pp. 200-266; Brasseur, _Hist. des Nations Civ. de la Mexique_, Vol. iv, p. 821; Herrera, _Historia de las Indias_, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 12, etc. [41-†] _Diccionario Universal_, Appendice, s. v. [41-‡] Their names were Ta Yoapa, Father Dawn; Ta Te, Father Stone; Coanamoa, the Serpent which Seizes. _Dicc. Univ._, App., Tom. iii, p. 11. [41-§] Duran, _Historia de los Indios_, Tom. ii, p. 140. They were Tota, Our Father; Yollometli, the Heart of the Maguey (probably pulque); and Topiltzin, Our Noble One (probably Quetzalcoatl, to whom this epithet was often applied). [41-‖] “Fue el Demonio que les dió la superstición del numero nueve.” _Manual de Ministros_, p. 197. [42-*] _The Native Calendar of Central America and Mexico_, p. 12. [42-†] Motolinia, _Ritos Antiguos, Sacrificios e Idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva España_, p. 340 (in _Coleccion de Documentos ineditos para la Historia de España_). [42-‡] Thomas Coto, _Vocabulario de la lengua Cakchiquel_, MS., sub voce, _Rayo_. [42-§] Herrera, _Historia de las Indias_, Dec. IV, Lib. viii, cap. 10. [42-‖] _Diccionario Universal_, Appendice, ubi suprá. [42-¶] [TN-15]‘Señor de los Animales.” _Codex Telleriano-Remensis_, Parte ii, Lam. iv.