custom of passing new-born children through the smoke of fire in, ii. 232 n. 3;

virgin-priestesses of fire in, ii. 245;

continence at brewing pulque in, iii. 201 sq.;

tears of human victims a sign of rain in, vii. 248 n. 2;

magic ointment in, viii. 165;

use of skins of human victims in, ix. 265 sq., 297, 298 sq.;

killing the god in, ix. 275 sqq.;

story of the creation of the sun in, ix. 410;

ceremony of new fire in, x. 132;

representation of the sun as a wheel in, x. 334 n. 1