[25] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ. du Mex. (quoting a Cakchiquel MS.), vol. i, p. 248. [↑]
[27] Sahagun, bk. i, c. vi. [↑]
[28] Idem, bk. 2, Appendix. [↑]
[29] Idea, p. 27; vol. i, pp. 419 ff. [↑]
[30] See Introduction, pp. 14, 16. [↑]
[31] See Uitzilopochtli, pp. 73 ff. [↑]
[33] Idea, pp. 63–66. This myth seems to me to show vestiges of a belief in the theory of the transmigration of souls, and to indicate that the ascetic, almost on the borders of what is known in Buddhistic belief as “arahatship,” or promotion to a higher life, was condemned for his lapse to recommence existence once more under a low form of life. [↑]