[5] Sahagun, bk. i, c. xii. [↑]
[6] As regards these translations of hymns throughout the work, some have been translated by me from the Mexican originals, others have been translated from the German of Seler. Like that authority I have not received any enlightenment from Brinton’s “translations” in his Sacred Chants of the Ancient Mexicans. [↑]
[7] Bk. ii, c. xxx; see also Torquemada, bk. x, c. xxxv. [↑]
[9] Seler, Commentary on Vaticanus B, p. 262, believes the ceremony to refer to the parturition of the goddess, who gives birth to Cinteotl, although he at first elucidated the ceremony as here indicated. Seler confounds the postures of sexual intercourse and parturition. [↑]
[10] See picture in Codex Borbonicus. [↑]
[11] As do Aphrodite, and other goddesses of love. [↑]