[29-‡] He observes that there were “familias de los tales sabios en las quales en manera de patrimonio se heredaban, succediendo los hijos á los padres, y principalmente su abominable secta de Nagualismo.” Historia del Cielo y de la Tierra, MS., p. 7. Ordoñez advances various erudite reasons for believing that Nagualism is a religious belief whose theory and rites were brought from Carthage by Punic navigators in ancient times.
[29-§] Maria de Moxó, Cartas Mejicanas, p. 270, (Genova, n. d.).
[30-*] “Xochimilca, que asi llamavan à los mui sabios encantadores.” Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana, Lib. xv, cap. 16.
[30-†] In Nahuatl, tlapiani, a guardian or watchman. The Zapotec priesthood was divided into the huijatoos, “greater guardians,” and their inferiors, the copavitoos, “guardians of the gods.” Carriedo, Estudios Historicòs, p. 93.
[30-‡] See Eligio Ancona. Historia de Yucatan, Tom. iv, cap. 1 (Mérida, 1880).
[31-*] The mention of the fifteen, 5 x 3, chosen disciples indicates that the same system of initiating by triplets prevailed in Yucatan as in Chiapas (see above, p. 19). The sacred tree is not named, but presumably it was the ceiba to which I refer elsewhere. The address of Jacinto was obtained from those present, and is given at length by the Jesuit Martin del Puerto, in his Relacion hecho al Cabildo Eclesiastico por el preposito de la Compañia de Jesus, acerca de la muerte de Jacinto Can-Ek y socios, Dec. 26, 1761. It is published, with other documents relating to this revolt, in the Appendix to the Diccionario Universal, edited by Orozco y Berra, Mexico, 1856. On the prophecies of Chilan Balam, see my Essays of an Americanist, pp. 255-273 (Philadelphia, 1890).
[31-†] Eligio Ancona, Hist. de Yucatan, Tom. ii, p. 452.
[32-*] See Pedro Sanchez de Aguilar, Informe contra Idolum Cultores en Yucathan (Madrid, 1639); Eligio Ancona, Historia de Yucatan, Tom. ii, pp. 128, 129.
[32-†] The chief authority on this revolt is Juan de Torres Castillo, Relacion de lo Sucedido en las Provincias de Nexapa, Iztepex y Villa Alta (Mexico, 1662). See also Cavo, Los Tres Siglos de Mexico durante el Gobierno Español, Tom. ii, p. 41, and a pamphlet by Christoval Manso de Contreras, Relacion cierta y verdadera de lo que sucedio en esta Provincia de Tehuantepec, etc. (printed at Mexico, 1661), which I know only through the notes of Dr. Berendt. Mr. H. H. Bancroft, in his very meagre account of this event, mistakingly insists that it took place in 1660. History of Mexico, Vol. iii, p. 164.
[32-‡] See Brasseur de Bourbourg, Histoire des Nations Civilisées de la Mexique, Tom. iv, 824.