A
Aac, Prince. In the story of Queen Móo, [240], [244]–245, [246]
Acalan. District in Guatemala;
race-movements and, [150]
Acllacuna (Selected Ones). Body of maidens from whom victims for sacrifice were taken in Peru, [313]
Aclla-huasi. Houses in which the Acllacuna lived, [313]
Acolhuacan. District in Mexico, [26]
Acolhuans (or Acolhuaque) (People of the Broad Shoulder). Mexican race, [26];
said to have founded Mexico, [26];
a pure Nahua race, perhaps the Toltecs, [26];
their supremacy, [48]
Acolhuaque. See Acolhuans
Acosta, José de. Work on Mexican lore, [58]
Acsumama. Guardian spirit of the potato plant in Peru, [295]
Acxitl. Toltec king, son of Huemac II, [17], [19]
Acxopil. Ruler of the Kiche, [158]–159
Agoreros (or Mohanes). Members of Peruvian tribes who claimed power as oracles, [297]–298, [314]
Ahuizotl. Mexican king, [30]
Ah-zotzils. A Maya tribe, [172]
Akab-sib (Writing in the Dark). A bas-relief at El Castillo, Chichen-Itza, [190]
Aké. Maya ruins at, [186]–187
America. Superficial resemblance between peoples, customs, and art-forms of Asia and, [1];
civilisation, native origin of, [1]–2, [3], [328];
animal and plant life peculiar to, [2];
man, origin of, in, [2];
geographical connection between Asia and, [3];
traditions of intercourse between Asia and, [3];
Chinese Fu-Sang and, [3];
possible Chinese and Japanese visits to, [3]–4;
Coronado’s expedition to, [4];
legends of intercourse between Europe and, [4];
“Great Ireland” probably the same as, [4];
St. Brandan’s voyage and, [4];
reached by early Norsemen, [5];
the legend of Madoc and, [5]–6;
early belief in, respecting incursions from the east, [6];
prophecy of Chilan Balam re coming of white men to, [8]
America, Central. Indigenous origin of civilisation of, [1];
legend of Toltec migration to, [20]
Anahuac (By the Water). Native name of the Mexican plateau, [18].
See Mexico
Ancestor-worship in Peru, [296]
Andeans. The prehistoric civilisation of, [249]–250;
architectural remains of, [250]
Antahuayllas. Peruvian tribe, [284]
Antilia. Legends of, have no connection with American myth, [6]
Anti-suyu. One of the four racial divisions of ancient Peru, [255]
Apinguela. Island on Lake Titicaca; Huaina Ccapac and the lake-goddess and, [299]
Apocatequil. Peruvian thunder-god, the “Prince of Evil”;
in a creation-myth, [301]–302
Apu-Ccapac (Sovereign Chief). Title of the Inca rulers, [248]
“Apu-Ollanta.” A drama-legend of the Incas, [251]–253
Apurimac (Great Speaker). River in Peru;
regarded as an oracle, [296]
Aqua. A bird-maiden; in the myth of origin of the Canaris, [319]
Arara (Fire-bird). Same as Kinich-ahau, which see
Architecture. I. Of the Nahua, [31]–34.
II. Of the Maya, [149]–150, [178]–198;
the most individual expression of the people, [178];
Yucatan exhibits the most perfect specimens, and the decadent phase, [178];
methods of building, [178]–179;
ignorance of some first principles, [179];
mural decoration, [179];
pyramidal buildings, [180];
definiteness of design, [180];
architectural districts, [181];
not of great antiquity, [182];
Father Burgoa on the palace at Mitla, [199]–201.
III. Of the Incas, [268]–269;
the art in which the race showed greatest advance, [268];
Sir Clements Markham on, [269]
Arriaga, P. J. de. On stone-worship in Peru, [293]
Art. Early American, superficial resemblance to that of Asia, [1];
native origin and unique character of American, [1]–2;
Toltec, [23];
Peruvians weak in, [248]
Asia. Origin of early American culture erroneously attributed to, [1];
man originally came to America from, [2];
former land-connection between America and, [3];
traditions of intercourse between America and, [3]
Ataguju. Supreme divinity of the Peruvians; in a creation-myth, [301]
Atamalqualiztli (Fast of Porridge-balls and Water). Nahua festival, [77]
Atatarho. Mythical wizard-king of the Iroquois, [72]
Atauhuallpa. Son of the Inca Huaina Ccapac; strives for the crown with Huascar, [289]–290
Atl (Water). Mexican deity; often confounded with the moon-goddess, [106]
Atlantis. Legends of, have no connection with American myth, [6]
Auqui (Warrior). Peruvian order of knighthood; instituted by Pachacutic, [287]
Avendaño, Hernandez de. And Peruvian fetishes, [295]
Avilix. The god assigned to Balam-Agab in the Kiche story of the creation, [230];
turned into stone, [231]
Axaiacatzin, King. Father of Chachiuhnenetzin, the vicious wife of Nezahualpilli, [129]
Axayacatl. Mexican king, [92]
Aymara. Peruvian race, [254]–255;
fusion with Quichua, [285]–286
Azangaro. The Sondor-huasi at, [269]
Azcapozalco. Mexican town, [26];
rivalry with Tezcuco, [49];
Aztecs and, [52]
Aztecs (or Aztecâ) (Crane People). A nomad Mexican tribe, [27], [50]–51;
racial affinities, [27];
character, [27]–28;
Tlascalans and, [26];
founders of Tenochtitlan (Mexico), [27];
their science, [43];
in bondage to Colhuacan, [51];
allied with Tecpanecs, [51];
war with Tecpanecs, [52];
development of the empire, [52];
commercial expansion, [52];
their tyranny, [52]–53;
their conception of eternity, [55];
the priesthood, [114]–117;
idea of the origin of mankind, [123];
a migration myth of, [233]
Aztlan (Crane Land). Traditional place of origin of Nahua, [11];
Aztecs and, [50], [233]