[35-‡] Teobert Maler, “Mémoire sur l’Etat de Chiapas,” in the Révue d’ Ethnographie, Tom. iii, pp. 309-311. This writer also gives some valuable facts about the Indian insurrection in the Sierra de Alicia, in 1873.
[36-*] The long account given by Mr H. H. Bancroft of this insurrection is a travesty of the situation drawn from bitterly prejudiced Spanish sources, of course, utterly out of sympathy with the motives which prompted the native actors. See his History of the Pacific States, Vol ii, p. 696 sqq. Ordoñez y Aguiar, who lived on the spot within a generation of the occurrences recognizes in Maria Candelaria (whose true name Bancroft does not give) the real head of the rebellion, “quien ordenaba los ardides del motin; .... de lo que principalmente trataban las leyes fundamentales de su secta, era de que no quedase rastro alguno de que los Europeos havian pisado este suelo.” His account is in his unpublished work, Historia del Cielo y de la Tierra, written at Guatemala about 1780. Juarros, speaking of their rites, says of them: “Apostando de la fé, profanando los vasos sagrados, y ofreciendo sacrilegos cultos á una indizuela.” Historia de la Ciudad de Guatemala, Tom. i, p. 17.
[36-†] Bancroft, ubi suprà, p. 705, note. One was hanged, whom Garcia Pelaez calls “una india bruja.” Memorias para la Historia de Guatemala, Tom. ii, p. 153.
[36-‡] Squier, ubi suprà, passim.
[37-*] Voyage á l’ Isthmus de Tehuantepec, p. 164. He adds a number of particulars of the power she was supposed to exercise.
[38-*] “Que era venerado en todo el imperio de Montezuma.” See Diccionario Universal, Appendice, s. v. (Mexico, 1856).
[38-†] “Dass der Gott Tepeyollotl im Zapotekenlande und weiter südwärts seine Wurzeln hat, und dem eigentlichen Aztekischen Olymp fremd ist, darüber kann kein Zweifel mehr obwalten.” See Dr. Seler’s able discussion of the subject in the Compte-Rendu of the Seventh International Congress of Americanists, p. 559, seq. The adoption of subterranean temples was peculiarly a Zapotecan trait. “Notandose principalmente en muchos adoratorios de los Zapotecos, estan los mas de ellos cubiertos, ò en subterraneos espaciosos y lòbregos.” Carriedo, Estudios Historicos, Tom. i, p. 26.
[39-*] Constituciones Diocesanas, pp. 9, 10.
[39-†] Gage, A New Survey of the West Indies, pp. 389, 393.
[39-‡] Teatro Mexicano, Tratado iii, cap. 11. Mr. Bandelier has called attention to the naming of one of the principal chiefs among the Aztecs, Tlilancalqui, “Man of the Dark House,” and thinks it related to the Votan myth. Twelfth Annual Report of the Peabody Museum, p. 689.