[49] Hist. de Tlaxcala, in Ternaux-Compan’s Voyages, tom. lxxxvi, p. 5; also edition by A. Chavero, Mexico, 1892. [50] Hist. Antigua de Mexico, bk. i, c. 4. [51] First Relacion. [52] Historia Eccles. [53] A variant myth makes Quetzalcoatl the god who seeks bones in the underworld from which to make the human race. As he returns, the bones drop to earth and quails gnaw them. Ciuacoatl pounds them into a paste from which men are formed. The Anales de Quauhtitlan makes the gods create man from the cinders of the worlds destroyed in the four epochs. [54] Probably because of his status as god of twins and of duplicates of all kinds. [55] Obviously this sacred bundle is in the same category with the “medicine-bundle” of the North American Indian tribes, and it would seem that from such a form certain of the Mexican gods were evolved. [56] Bk. vii, c. 2. [57] For further information regarding this incident see Boturini, Idea, section iii, 14, “Tlatocaocelotl.” [58] These metamorphoses, or at least the first two, are obviously founded upon Xolotl’s dual characteristic as a twin. The resemblance between his name and that of the little amphibious animal axolotl is due to the monstrous character of both. [59] Hist. du Tlaxcallan in Ternaux-Compan’s Nouvelles Annales des Voyages (tom. xcix, p. 129). [60] Hist. Antig. de Mexico, tom. i, p. 7. [61] Storia Antica del Messico, tom. ii, p. 7. [62] Hist. Eccles, p. 81. [63] Curtin, Creation Myths of Primitive America, Intro., p. 35. [64] Relaciones (Chavero’s edition; Mexico, 1891), p. 11. Hist. Chichimeca (Chavero’s edition; Mexico, 1892), p. 21. [65] Among the American races the soul was thought of as residing in the bones. See Brinton, Myths of the New World, pp. 295 ff., 299, 321. [66] Anales de Quauhtitlan. [67] Translation of interpretation in Kingsborough, vol. vi, p. 127. [68] P. 120. [69] See Rady y Delgado’s reproduction of this Codex, Madrid, 1892. [70] The colours associated with the points of the compass were: East, yellow; north, red; west, blue; south, white. [71] For the further relation of the gods to time and space see the appendix on the tonalamatl. [72] See myth of the creation of the four supporters, supra. [73] Humming-birds. The warriors seem to have been metamorphosed into the naualli or bird-disguise of Uitzilopochtli, the humming-bird god of war. [74] Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas. I believe these different heavens to have resulted from the clashing and mingling of rival cults. [75] As it has been found impossible to include every illustration from the codices which is mentioned in the text, those pictures not supplied may be consulted in the reproductions of the codices themselves. A full bibliography of the codices will be found at the end. When the letter K appears with reference to a codex, its reproduction in Kingsborough’s “Mexican” antiquities is implied.