[40-*] Herrera, Historia de las Indias Occidentales, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 14.
[40-†] Villa Señor, Teatro Americano, Lib. v, cap. 38 (Mexico, 1747). Father Cavo adds that there were signs of human sacrifices present, but of this I can find no evidence in the earlier reports. Comp. Cavo, Los Tres Siglos de Mexico durante el Gobierno Españal, Tom. ii, p. 128.
[40-‡] Teatro Americano, Lib. ii, cap. 11; Lib. iii, cap. 13.
[41-*] See Mühlenpfordt, Mexico, Bd. ii, pp. 200-266; Brasseur, Hist. des Nations Civ. de la Mexique, Vol. iv, p. 821; Herrera, Historia de las Indias, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 12, etc.
[41-†] Diccionario Universal, Appendice, s. v.
[41-‡] Their names were Ta Yoapa, Father Dawn; Ta Te, Father Stone; Coanamoa, the Serpent which Seizes. Dicc. Univ., App., Tom. iii, p. 11.
[41-§] Duran, Historia de los Indios, Tom. ii, p. 140. They were Tota, Our Father; Yollometli, the Heart of the Maguey (probably pulque); and Topiltzin, Our Noble One (probably Quetzalcoatl, to whom this epithet was often applied).
[41-‖] “Fue el Demonio que les dió la superstición del numero nueve.” Manual de Ministros, p. 197.
[42-*] The Native Calendar of Central America and Mexico, p. 12.
[42-†] Motolinia, Ritos Antiguos, Sacrificios e Idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva España, p. 340 (in Coleccion de Documentos ineditos para la Historia de España).