[11] Consult bibliography to chapter ix of H. B. Alexander’s North American Mythology. Boston, 1916. [12] Sahagun, bk. vi, c. viii. [13] See appendix on Tonalamatl. [14] See chapter on Cosmogony. [15] Seler, Codex Vaticanus B, 1902–3, p. 174. [16] In many cosmogonies—Hindu, Babylonian, Chinese, Scandinavian, for example—the earth is formed from the remains of a slain monster or living being. [17] See section on Tlaloc. [18] Payne in his History of the New World called America, vol. i, 1892, pp. 424 ff., was the first to indicate the “fetishtic” nature of this statue, which he identifies as that of Chicomecoatl. He pours the vials of scorn upon “the Italian dilettante Boturini” for his identification of the block as Uitzilopochtli-Teoyaomiqui. He further states that it “has no limbs,” but its large, scaly dragon-legs are at least as obvious as his lack of success in giving the sculpture its proper name. [19] See my article “Cherokees” in Hastings’ Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, vol. iii, p. 504. [20] See Brinton, Nagualism. [21] Anales de Quauhtitlan (Brasseur, Hist. Nat. Civ. de Mex., vol. i, pp. 400 ff.). [22] Codex Vaticanus, 1902–3, p. 75. [23] For much Mexican star-lore of value see Seler’s Venus Period in the Picture-Writings of the Borgia Codex Group, translated into English in Bulletin 28 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 355 ff. For the myth see section on Cosmogony. [24] Bk. ii, c. 4. [25] See Appendix on Tonalamatl. [26] Sahagun, bk. ii, Appendix. [27] Clavigero, Storia del Messico, vol. i, bk. vi, p. 257 (English translation). [28] The native name for Mexico, signifying “Place upon the water.” [29] Monarq. Ind., tom. ii, p. 525. [30] Hist. Mex., tom. i, pp. 291–2. [31] See the section on Tlaloc. [32] Notes on the Shushwap People of British Columbia, “Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada,” 1891, vol. ix, sect. ii. Montreal, 1892. [33] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., bk. ii, c. xiv. [34] Hist. de Tlaxcallan, c. v. [35] See Section on Itzpapalotl. [36] See chapter on Cosmogony. [37] See Sahagun, bk. i, c. 6. [38] See chapter on Cosmogony. [39] Torquemada, bk. viii, c. 13. [40] Although some of the old authors, Bernal Diaz for instance, say explicitly that the gods of one city were not recognized in another, in effect they were, only under other names. [41] Translation in Kingsborough, vol. vi, p. 198. [42] Op. cit., p. 207. [43] L. Spence, The Popol Vuh (1908), description of bk. i; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Le Vuh Popol, Paris, 1861. [44] An important work republished with a Latin translation by Dr. W. Lehmann under the title of Traditions des anciens Mexicains (Jour. Soc. Amer. Paris, n.s., vol. iii. Paris, 1906. pp. 239–298). [45] Kingsborough’s translation, vol. vi, p. 171. [46] Chavero’s edition, Mexico, 1892, p. 21. [47] See the Popol Vuh, bk. i., for a Quiche analogy to this tale of human degradation. [48] Chavero’s edition, Mexico, 1891, pp. ii ff.