Xeres, Fr., Spanish historian, on the sacrifice of children among the Indians of Peru, iv. 185
Xerxes in Thessaly, iv. 161, 163;
identified with Ahasuerus, ix. 360
Xilonen, Mexican goddess of the Young Maize, ix. 285;
woman annually [pg 531] sacrificed in the character of, ix. 285 sq.
Ximanas, an Indian tribe of the Amazon, kill all their first-born children, iv. 185 sq.
Xipe, “the Flayed One,” Mexican god, ix. 297, 298, 299;
statuette of, ix. 291 n. 1;
his festival of the flaying of men, ix. 296 sqq.;