The gods of Mexico

Name: The gods of Mexico
Author: Spence, Lewis

Spence, Lewis

Aztec mythology; Indian mythology -- Mexico; Mexico -- Religion

Francesco Saverio Clavigero, Storia Antico del Mexico. (Cesena, 1780.)
English translation by Charles Cullen, 2 vols. (London, 1787.)

Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la
America Septentrional. (Madrid, 1746.)

Antonio de Herrera, Historia General de los Indios Occidentales
(1601–1615, 5 vols. folio; Madrid, 1728–1730). English translation by
Stevens (London, 1725–1726—considerably abridged).

José de Acosta, Historia Natural y Moral de Las Yndias. (Seville,
1580.) English translation in Purchas his Pilgrimes.

Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Cronica de la Nueva-España. (Medina, 1553;
Antwerp, 1554; Mexico, 1836.) English translation, The Pleasant History
of the Conquest of the West Indies. (London, 1578.)

Antonio Leon y Gama, Descripcion de las Dos Piedros. (Mexico, 1792.)

Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de las
Indias Occidentales. (1535, vol. i only.) (Madrid, 1851–1855, 4 vols.)

Jacinto de la Serna, Manuel de Ministros de Indios para el Conocimiento
de sus Idolatrias, y Extirpacion de Ellas. (Madrid, 1892.)

Augustin Vetancurt, Teatro Mexicana. (Mexico, 1697; 1870–1871.)

M. F. de E., Veytia, Historia Antigua de Mejico. (Mexico, 1836.)
(Partly in Kingsborough, vol. viii.)

There may also be consulted:

B. de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias.

The best edition is that of Madrid (5 vols., 1875–1876).

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de
Nueva-España. Translated by A. P. Maudslay as The True History of the
Conquest of Mexico. (Hakluyt Society, London, 1908.)

It gives but little information regarding Mexican religion.

Hernan Cortéz, Cartas de Relacion. English translation by F. A. MacNutt
under the title of The Five Letters of Cortéz to the Emperor Charles V.
(New York, 1908.)

A. Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, in Kingsborough’s Antiquities of
Mexico, vol. vii, contains much valuable mythical material; also edited
by Orozco y Berra. (Mexico, 1878.)

Duran, Historia de las Indias (ed. Ramirez, 2 vols., Mexico,
1867–1880).

It is full, valuable, and sometimes indispensable.

Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas, in Annals of the Mexican
Museum, vol. ii. Translated by T. Phillips, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., vol.
xxi.

Annales de San Anton, Muñon Chimalpahin. (Paris, 1889, translated by R.
Siméon.)

Of considerable use as regards myth.

Anales de Quauhtitlan (or Codex Chimalpopocâ) in Anales del Museo
Nacional de Mexico, end of tom. iii.

Thevet, “Histoire de Mechyque” (in Journ. Soc. Amer. de Paris, 1905,
pp. 1–41).

G. de Mendieta, Historia Ecclesiastica Indiana. (Icazbalceta, Mexico,
1870.)

G. Icazbalceta, Nueva Coleccion de documentos para la historia de
Mexico (Mexico, series i, vol. i, 1858; vol. ii, 1866; series ii,
Mexico, 1886–1892).

The first volume of series i contains Motolinia’s Hist. de los Indios,
and the third volume of the second series the work of Pomar y Zurita.

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The gods of Mexico

Spence, Lewis

Aztec mythology; Indian mythology -- Mexico; Mexico -- Religion

Francesco Saverio Clavigero, Storia Antico del Mexico. (Cesena, 1780.)
English translation by Charles Cullen, 2 vols. (London, 1787.)

Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la
America Septentrional. (Madrid, 1746.)

Antonio de Herrera, Historia General de los Indios Occidentales
(1601–1615, 5 vols. folio; Madrid, 1728–1730). English translation by
Stevens (London, 1725–1726—considerably abridged).

José de Acosta, Historia Natural y Moral de Las Yndias. (Seville,
1580.) English translation in Purchas his Pilgrimes.

Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Cronica de la Nueva-España. (Medina, 1553;
Antwerp, 1554; Mexico, 1836.) English translation, The Pleasant History
of the Conquest of the West Indies. (London, 1578.)

Antonio Leon y Gama, Descripcion de las Dos Piedros. (Mexico, 1792.)

Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de las
Indias Occidentales. (1535, vol. i only.) (Madrid, 1851–1855, 4 vols.)

Jacinto de la Serna, Manuel de Ministros de Indios para el Conocimiento
de sus Idolatrias, y Extirpacion de Ellas. (Madrid, 1892.)

Augustin Vetancurt, Teatro Mexicana. (Mexico, 1697; 1870–1871.)

M. F. de E., Veytia, Historia Antigua de Mejico. (Mexico, 1836.)
(Partly in Kingsborough, vol. viii.)

There may also be consulted:

B. de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias.

The best edition is that of Madrid (5 vols., 1875–1876).

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de
Nueva-España. Translated by A. P. Maudslay as The True History of the
Conquest of Mexico. (Hakluyt Society, London, 1908.)

It gives but little information regarding Mexican religion.

Hernan Cortéz, Cartas de Relacion. English translation by F. A. MacNutt
under the title of The Five Letters of Cortéz to the Emperor Charles V.
(New York, 1908.)

A. Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, in Kingsborough’s Antiquities of
Mexico, vol. vii, contains much valuable mythical material; also edited
by Orozco y Berra. (Mexico, 1878.)

Duran, Historia de las Indias (ed. Ramirez, 2 vols., Mexico,
1867–1880).

It is full, valuable, and sometimes indispensable.

Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas, in Annals of the Mexican
Museum, vol. ii. Translated by T. Phillips, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., vol.
xxi.

Annales de San Anton, Muñon Chimalpahin. (Paris, 1889, translated by R.
Siméon.)

Of considerable use as regards myth.

Anales de Quauhtitlan (or Codex Chimalpopocâ) in Anales del Museo
Nacional de Mexico, end of tom. iii.

Thevet, “Histoire de Mechyque” (in Journ. Soc. Amer. de Paris, 1905,
pp. 1–41).

G. de Mendieta, Historia Ecclesiastica Indiana. (Icazbalceta, Mexico,
1870.)

G. Icazbalceta, Nueva Coleccion de documentos para la historia de
Mexico (Mexico, series i, vol. i, 1858; vol. ii, 1866; series ii,
Mexico, 1886–1892).

The first volume of series i contains Motolinia’s Hist. de los Indios,
and the third volume of the second series the work of Pomar y Zurita.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The gods of Mexico

The gods of Mexico

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