Religions of Primitive Peoples

by Daniel G. Brinton

[180] They were called huacanqui. Montesinos, Mems. Hist. sur l’ancien Perou, p. 161.

[181] Garcia, Origen de los Indios, lib. iv., cap. 26; Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana, lib. vi., cap. 41.

[182] Hale, Ethnog. and Philol. of the U. S. Explor. Exped., p. 97.

[183] Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 97.

[184] Clark, Indian Sign Language, p. 241; Matthews, Ethnog. of the Hidatsa, p. 48, etc.

[185] See Frazer, The Golden Bough, passim.

[186] See, for illustrative examples, my Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics, p. 49, etc.; and comp. Keary, Outlines of Primitive Belief, p. 63, sq.

[187] A. d’Orbigny, L’Homme Américain, tome ii., p. 365.

[188] Dorsey, Siouan Cults, pp. 390, 455; Alice C. Fletcher in Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Science, 1895 and 1896; Brinton, Myths of New World, pp. 118, 119, and Nagualism, pp. 42, 47, 48.

[189] As suggested by E. Bonavia, Flora of the Assyrian Monuments (1894). This is a more likely interpretation than that of Dr. Tylor, that the conical object is the inflorescence of the male date palm; as it is in some bas-reliefs shown presented toward a city gate, a person, etc.