Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl
Religion
Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl
Nahuatl poetry
Xamontoca, IV, 7. _Xi-am-on-itta_, from _itta_, to look, to see. Compare
the Gloss.
Xatenonotza, VI, 6. For _xi-tenonotza_, call ye upon, pray ye to.
Xayaualli, XIII, 8. From _xayaua_, to adorn oneself in the ancient
manner.
Xeliui, XVIII, 4. To split, to divide.
Ximocaya, III, 9. Rendered by the Gloss as equivalent to _ximoayan_, the
Paradise of Souls; _see_ my _Ancient Nahuatl Poetry_, p. 132.
Ximicotica, XVI, 1, 2. From _ica_, to wake up, awake.
Xiuh, IV, 8. Green; grass.
Xiuacalco, III, 5. From _xiuh_, _calli_, _co_, in the green house; the
Gloss explains it by _acxoyacalco_, "in the house of the wild
laurel," or decorated with wild laurel, a plant probably
sacred to Tlaloc.
Xiuicoatl, XV, 2. Grass snake, or green snake. From _xiuitl_, _coatl_.
Xiyanouia, III, 6. Imperative from _yauh_, to go.
Xochinquauitl, XIV, 7. The flower-tree.
Xochiquetzal, XIV, 11. Proper name of a deity.
Xochitla, IV, 1, etc. Flowers, place of, or abundance of. From
_xochitl_.
Xochitlicacan, XIV, 3, 5. The place of flowers.
Xoconoctli, XIX, 5. From _xocotl_, fruit, apple.
Xocoyeua, XIX, 5. From _xococtl_, fruit.
Xolotl, XIV, 9. A servant, a page.
Xoyauia, IX, 2. From _xoyaui_, to begrime, to spoil; _xoyauian_, the
place of blackness, or of decay.
Xoxolcuicatl, VI, 5. From _xolotl_, servant, page, and _cuicatl_, song.
INDEX.
Abundance, the fabled house of,
Amanteca,
Amantlan; a quarter of the city of Tenochtitlan,
Amimitl, the god:
hymn to,
his functions,
Ancient god, the, a name of the god of fire,
"Ancient Nahuatl Poetry," quoted,
Arrows:
the house of,
god of,
Artists, the goddess of,
Atlaua, the god:
hymn to,
signification of,
Auroras, the four,
Ayopechtli _or_ Ayopechcatl, a goddess:
hymn to,
functions of,
Aztec:
Mythology, Paradise of,
nation, wars of,
Ball, the game of,
Bibliotheca Laurentio-Mediceana,
Bread and water, fasting on,
Bustamente, his edition of Sahagun's _Historia_,
Cardinal points as symbols,
Chalchiucihuatl, a name of the goddess Chicomecoatl,
Chalmecatl, name of a deity,
Chichimecs, an ancient tribe,
Chicomecoatl, the goddess:
hymn to,
functions of,
her names,
Chicomolotl, a name of the goddess Chicomecoatl,
Chicomoztoc, the "seven caves,"
Childbirth, goddess of,
Chimalman, the goddess of,
Chimalipan, the virgin-mother,
Cholula or Chollolan, a place name,
Cihuacoatl, the goddess:
hymn to,
functions of,
Cinteotl or Centeotl, the god,
his birthplace,
his functions,
Cipactonalli, a fabled personage,
Clavigero, quoted,
Coatepec, the sacred serpent mountain,
Codex Ramirez, the,
Codex Telleriano-Remensis, the,
Codex Vaticanus, the,
Colhuacan:
first King of,
derivation of,
reference to,
Colors, symbolism of,
Cuauhtitlan, the Annals of,
Cuezaltzin, a name of the god of fire,
Dance:
the jar,
of the "four auroras,"
Death-song, a,
Drum, use of the,
Drum-beating, goddess of,
Drunkenness, deities of,
Duran, Diego, quoted,
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