The Ancient Cities of the New World / Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882

by Désiré Charnay

[131] By a curious coincidence, a sculptured fish having a human head is found on a Romance capital in the Church of St. Germain-des-Prés.

[132] Landa, sec. xlii. p. 344.

[133] The good bishop saw the hand of man in a natural phenomenon not understood in his time.

[134] Landa, sec. lii. p. 346.

[135] Landa, “Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan,” sec. viii. p. 47.

[136] Ut supra.

[137] Sahagun, “Hist. de las Cosas de la Nueva España,” lib. II. cap. xxxvii.

[138] Sanchez, “Annales du Musée de Mexico,” tome I. p. 277.

[139] Clavigero, tome I. lib. vii. p. 228.

[140] Sahagun, lib. VIII. cap. xxxvi.