[76] This stellar mask is so called from being worn by the stellar deities. It is usually connected with the red-and-white striped painting of the body. The Sahagun Aztec MS. calls it “face-cage marking” and “face-star marking which is called darkness,” the former referring to stripes over the face, the latter to the mask design, which seems to me to symbolize night surrounded by the “eyes” of the stars. [77] Hist. Nat. Ind., pp. 352 ff., English translation in Purchas his Pilgrimes, bk. v, c. 9. Maclehoses’ edition. [78] Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. i, pp. 396–398. [79] Gage’s trans. of Herrera, in New Survey, pp. 116–117; for Spanish text, see Hist. Gen., tom. i, dec. ii, bk. vii, c. xvii. [80] Monarq. Ind., tom. i, p. 293. [81] Quarter, district. [82] House of the youths, where the acolytes or junior priests resided. [83] Governors. [84] Vassals, burghers. [85] Dance. [86] This custom was in vogue among certain prehistoric races, and is still practised on the death of a relative by African bushmen, who first remove a finger-joint. [87] More correctly quauhxicalli, a stone vase for the reception of the hearts of victims, from quauh (tli) “eagle,” and xicalli, “cup.” [88] Monarq. Ind., tom. ii, p. 73. [89] Hist. Mex., English translation by C. Cullen (London, 1787), vol. i, bk. vi. [90] Idea de una Hist., pp. 60–61. [91] Bk. i, c. i. [92] So Uitzilopochtli addresses his half-brother. “Uncle” among the ancient Mexicans was an honorific title. [93] Bk. iii, c, i, par. i. [94] Monarq. Ind., tom. i, p. 294. [95] See chapter on Cosmogony. [96] Sahagun, Appendix to bk. iii, c. ix. [97] Hist. Nat. Ind. in Purchas his Pilgrimes, bk. v, c. xiii. See also Manuel Gamio, Proc. 19th Cong. Amer., Washington, 1915, for account of discoveries when the foundations of this temple were partly laid bare in 1913. [98] C. i. [99] Sahagun, bk. ii, c. xxxiv; Uitzilopochtli himself, as we shall see, was oracular. In this case I take it that the octli distilled from the plant conferred the boon of oracular speech. [100] The first pulque or octli, which was called uitztli, was offered at this festival as first-fruits to Uitzilopochtli. The spirit distilled from the pulque is still known as mexcal or mescal, and is probably identical with the fiery fluid given to the braves in the service of the god before going into battle. [101] Bull. of U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, No. 28, p. 210. [102] Monarq. Ind., tom. ii, p. 41. [103] The Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas calls Uitzilopochtli omitecilt. I think this should be read ome tecitl, “twice-wizard,” but it may read ome tecutli, “twice-lord.” But the latter is certainly a title of Tonacatecutli, the creative deity. [104] Bk. i, c. i. [105] Sahagun, bk. ii, c. xxiv. [106] As does an Egyptian sun-god.