[133-2] The moon is _nipa_ or _nipaz_; _nipa_, I sleep; _nipawi_, night; _nip_, I die; _nepua_, dead; _nipanoue_, cold. This odd relationship was first pointed out by Volney (Duponceau, _Langues de l'Amérique du Nord_, p. 317). But the kinship of these words to that for water, _nip_, _nipi_, _nepi_, has not before been noticed. This proves the association of ideas on which I lay so much stress in mythology. A somewhat similar relationship exists in the Aztec and cognate languages, _miqui_, to die, _micqui_, dead, _mictlan_, the realm of death, _te-miqui_, to dream, _cec-miqui_, to freeze. Would it be going too far to connect these with _metzli_, moon? (See Buschmann, _Spuren der Aztekischen Sprache im Nördlichen Mexico_, p. 80.) [133-3] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, vol. iii. p. 485. [134-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, 1634, p. 16. [134-2] Humboldt, _Vues des Cordillères_, p. 21. [134-3] Spix and Martius, _Travels in Brazil_, ii. p. 247. [134-4] _Hist. de la Médecine_, i. p. 34. [134-5] Gama, _Des. de las dos Piedras_, etc., ii. pp. 100-102. Compare Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva España_, lib. i. cap. vi. [135-1] Codex Chimalpopoca, in Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, i. p. 183. Gama and others translate Nanahuatl by _el buboso_, Brasseur by _le syphilitique_, and the latter founds certain medical speculations on the word. It is entirely unnecessary to say to a surgeon that it could not possibly have had the latter meaning, inasmuch as the diagnosis between secondary or tertiary syphilis and other similar diseases was unknown. That it is so employed now is nothing to the purpose. The same or a similar myth was found in Central America and on the Island of Haiti. [136-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, 1648, p. 75. [136-2] Charlevoix is in error when he identifies Michabo with the Spirit of the Waters, and may be corrected from his own statements elsewhere. Compare his _Journal Historique_, pp. 281 and 344: ed. Paris, 1740. [137-1] Bradford, _American Antiquities_, p. 833; Martius, _Von dem Rechtszustande unter den Ureinwohnern Brasiliens_, p. 32; Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, i. p. 271. [138-1] La Vega, _Hist. des Incas_, liv. vi. cap. 9. [138-2] _Lett. sur les Superstitions du Pérou_, p. 111. [138-3] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, iv. p. 224.