[838] Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 321, among others, calls this slave a priest.
[839] Although Acosta says, 'tañendo tristes flautas y atambores.' Hist. de las Ynd., p. 322; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xviii. 'On faisait deux grandes bannières de papier blanc.' Chaves, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. v., p. 309.
[840] Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 370; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 6-7. Duran states that kings bore the corpse and that the mourners were dressed as water-goddesses. Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix., xl., tom. ii., cap. li. Acosta says that the arms and insignia were carried before the body by knights. Hist. de las Ynd., p. 321.
[841] Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., pp. 90, 142, states that they were dressed in royal insignia and jewels, which is not very likely; a number of them, however, were loaded with the royal wardrobe, which fact may have given rise to this statement.
[842] Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 370; Spiegazione delle Tavole del Codice Mexicano (Vaticano), in Id., vol. v., pp. 200-1; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 322; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xl. 'Salia el gran Sacerdote, con los otros Ministros, à recibirlo.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 521.
[843] Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., pp. 332, 325, 327, 388.
[844] 'El (the mode) que estos Chichimecas vsaron, fue quemarlos.' Monarq. Ind., tom. i., pp. 60, 72, 87; Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., pp. 369, 388; Id., Hist. Chich., pp. 214, 223, 261-2. Veytia, who introduces some arguments on this point, thinks that Tezozomoc introduced burning, yet he describes ceremonial cremations in the case of several kings before him. Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 3-4, tom. ii., p. 113; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., p. 140, tom. ii., pp. 97-8.
[845] Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., pp. 165, 202. 'La gente menuda comunmente se enterraua.' Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 308; Spiegazione delle Tavole del Codice Mexicano (Vaticano), in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. v., p. 200; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 528; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 4; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 129. 'Sabia por las pinturas, que se quemaron en tiempo del señor de México que se decia Itzcóatl, en cuya época los señores, y los principales que habia entónces, acordaron y mandaron que se quemasen todas, para que no viniesen á manos del vulgo.' Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., pp. 140-1.
[846] Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. v., p. 309.
[847] Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., pp. 379, 388; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix., xl.; Bologne, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., pp. 213-14; Solis, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. i., p. 432; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., p. 202; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 573; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 8-9.