H
Hacavitz.
I. The god assigned to Mahacutah in the Kiche story of the creation, [230];
turned into stone, [231].
II. Mountain at which the Kiche first saw the sun, [231]
Hakluyt. His English Voyages, cited, [5]
Hastu-huaraca. Chieftain of the Antahuayllas; defeated by Pachacutic, [284]–285;
joins with Pachacutic, [285]
Henry VII. His patronage of early American explorers, [6]
Hernandez, Father. And the goddess Ix chebel yax, [170]
House of Bats. Abode of the bat-god, [171];
mentioned in Popol Vuh myth, [226]
House of Cold. In the Kiche Hades, [226]
House of Darkness. Ruin at Aké, [186]
House of Feathers. Toltec edifice, [15]
House of Fire. In the Kiche Hades, [226]
House of Gloom. In the Kiche Hades, [221], [225]
House of Lances. In the Kiche Hades, [226]
House of Tigers. In the Kiche Hades, [226]
Hrdlicka, Dr. And Mexican cliff-dwellings, [24]
Huacaquan. Mountain; in the myth of origin of the Canaris, [318]
Huacas. Sacred objects of the Peruvians, [294]
Huaina Ccapac (The Young Chief). Eleventh Inca, [7], [288]–289;
and the lake-goddess of Titicaca, [299]
Huamantantac. Peruvian deity responsible for the gathering of sea-birds, [296]
Huanca. Peruvian race; allied against the Incas, [282], [285]
Huancas. Agricultural fetishes of the Peruvians, [294]
Huantay-sara. Idol representing the tutelary spirit of the maize plant, [295]
Huarcans. The Inca Tupac and, [288]
Huarco (The Gibbet). The valley of; the Inca Tupac and the natives of, [288]
Huaris (Great Ones). Ancestors of the aristocrats of a tribe in Peru; reverence paid to, [296]
Huarochiri. Village; in Coniraya myth, [323]
Huascar, or Tupac-cusi-huallpa (The Sun makes Joy). Son of the Inca Huaina Ccapac, [7];
strives for the crown with Atauhuallpa, [289]–290
Huasteca. Aboriginal Mexican race of Maya stock, [23], [147]–148;
probably represent early Maya efforts at colonisation, [147]
Huatenay. River in Peru; runs through the Intipampa at Cuzco, [261]
Huathiacuri. A hero, son of Paricaca; a myth of, [324]–326
Huatulco. Place in Mexico; Toltecs at, [12]
Huehuequauhtitlan. Place in Mexico; Quetzalcoatl at, [64]
Huehueteotl (Oldest of Gods). A name of the Mexican fire-god, [95]
Huehue Tlapallan (Very Old Tlapallan). In Toltec creation-myth, [119]
Huehuetzin. Toltec chieftain; rebels against Acxitl, [18], [19]
Huemac II. Toltec king, [15], [16];
abdicates, [17];
opposes Huehuetzin, [19]
Huexotzinco. Mexican city, [48], [49]
Huexotzincos. Aztec tribe, [233]
Hueymatzin (Great Hand). Toltec necromancer and sage, [14];
reputed author of the Teo-Amoxtli, [46];
and Quetzalcoatl, [84]
Hueytozoztli (The Great Watch). Festival of Chicomecohuatl, [86]
Huichaana. Zapotec deity; in creation-myth, [121], [122]
Huillcamayu (Huillca-river). River in Peru; regarded as an oracle, [296]
Huillcanuta. Place in Peru, [311]
Huillcas. Sacred objects of the nature of oracles, in Peru, [296]
Huitzilimitzin. In the story of the vicious princess, [130]
Huitzilopocho. Mexican city, [50]
Huitzilopochtli (Humming-bird to the Left). Aztec god of war, originally a chieftain, [28], [70];
and the foundation of Mexico, [28];
the great temple of, at Mexico, [30], [31];
plots against the Toltecs and Quetzalcoatl, [60];
and the legend of the amusing infant and the pestilence, [63]–64;
myth of the origin of, [70]–72;
associated with the serpent and the humming-bird, [72]–73;
as usually represented, [73];
associated with the gladiatorial stone, [73];
as Mexitli, [74];
as serpent-god of lightning, associated with the summer, [74];
in connection with Tlaloc, [74];
the Toxcatl festival of, [74];
the priesthood of, [75];
in connection with the legend of the sacrificed princess, [124]
Hun-Apu (Master, or Magician). A hero-god, twin with Xbalanque; in a Kiche myth, [211]–219;
in the myth in the second book of the Popol Vuh, [220], [223]–227;
mentioned, [237]
Hun-Came. One of the rulers of Xibalba, the Kiche Hades, [220], [221], [224]
Hunabku. God of the Maya, representing divine unity, [171]
Hunac Eel. Ruler of the Cocomes, [155]
Hunbatz. Son of Hunhun-Apu, [220], [222], [223]
Hunchouen. Son of Hunhun-Apu, [220], [222], [223]
Hunhun-Apu. Son of Xpiyacoc and Xmucane; in the myth in the second book of the Popol Vuh, [220]–222, [224], [225], [227]
Hunpictok (Commander-in-Chief of Eight Thousand Flints). The palace of, at Itzamal, [187]–188
Hunsa. City at which the Zoque of the Chibchas lived, [276]
Hurakan (The One-legged). Maya god of lightning;
prototype of Tlaloc, [76], [78];
the mustachioed image of, at Itzamal, [188];
= the mighty wind, in the Kiche story of the creation, [209];
and the creation of man in the second book of the Popol Vuh, [229]–230;
probably same as Nahua Tezcatlipoca, [237];
his sub-gods, [237]