The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

by H. Clay Trumbull

[206] See citations from various original sources, in Bancroft’s Native Races of Pacific Coast, II., 306-310, 707-709.

[207] The Nahuas were “skilled ones,” or “experts,” who had emigrated Northward from the Maya land (Réville’s Native Religions, p. 20).

[208] Clavigero’s Anc. Hist. of Mex., II., 45-49, cited in Bancroft’s Native Races, II., 307.

[209] The proper centre of the Maya nations lay in Yucatan (Réville’s Native Religions of Mexico and Peru, p. 18).

[210] Gomara, cited in Bancroft’s Native Races, II., 310 f.

[211] Herrera, cited in Bancroft’s Native Races, II., 706 f.

[212] Native Religions of Mexico and Peru (Hibbert Lectures, 1884), p. 43 f. See, also, pp. 45, 46, 82, 99.

[213] See Pindar’s Olympian Odes, Ode 1, line 146; Sophocles’ Trachiniæ, line 766; Virgil’s Æneid, Bk. XI., line 81 f.

[214] Homer’s Odyssey, Bk. III., lines 11, 12, 461-463; Iliad, Bk. II., lines 427, 428.

[215] Cicero’s De Divinatione, Bk. I., chap. 52, § 119.