[43] The conception of sacrifice as instituted to keep the world vivified, and especially to preserve the life of the Sun, appears in a number of documents, particularly in connexion with cosmogony (see Ch. III, [i], [ii]), as Sahagun, III, Appendix, iv; VI. iii; VII. ii; Explicacion del Codex Telleriano-Remensis (Kingsborough, v. 135); and especially in the Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas; see also Payne, i. 577-82; Seler [a], iii. 285; , pp. 37-41; "Die Sage von Quetzalcouatl," in CA xvi (Vienna, 1910).
[44] Sahagun, III, Appendix, i (quoted); cf. Seler , pp. 82-86. See also Sahagun, loc. cit., ch. ii, for a description of Tlalocan, and ch. iii. for a description of the celestial paradise (cf. I. x and VI. xxix).
[45] The meaning of Tamoanchan is discussed by Preuss, "Feuergötter," who regards it as an underworld region; by Beyer, in Anthropos, iii, who explains it as the Milky Way; and by Seler [a], ii, "Die religiösen Gesänge der alten Mexikaner," and [e] (see index), who identifies it with the western region, the house of the evening sun. Xolotl is discussed, in the same connexions, by Seler; see especially , pp. 108-12. The myth from Sahagun is in VII. [ii]; those from Mendieta in II. [i], [ii].
[46] The limbo of children's souls is described in the Spiegazione dette tavole del Códice Mexicano (here quoting Kingsborough, vi. 171).
[47] Mexican cosmogonies are discussed by Robelo [a], art. "Cosmogonia," in AnMM, 2a época, iii; Bancroft, III. ii (full bibliographical notes); R. H. Lowie, art. "Cosmogony and Cosmology (Mexican and South American)," in ERE; Brühl, pp. 398-401; Brinton [a], vii; Charency [a]; Müller, pp. 510-12; Spence , iii. A literary version of some of the old cosmogonic stories is given by Castellanos .
[48] Herrera, III. iii. 10 (quoted by León, in AnMM, 2a época, i. 395).
[49] Mixtec and Zapotec myth are studied by Seler, 28 BBE, pp. 285-305 (pp. 289, 286 are here quoted); the source cited for the Mixtec myth is Gregorio García, Origen de los Indios, V. iv; for Zapotec, Juan de Córdoba, Arte del Idioma Zapoteca.
[50] Sahagun, VI. vii, with reference to the Chichimec (elsewhere he speaks of Mixcoatl as an Otomian god); X. xxix. I, with reference to the Toltec; III. i, ii, and VII. ii, with reference to the origin of the sun, etc.
[51] Seler , p. 38.
[52] Mendieta (after Fray Andrés de Olmos), II. i-iv.