[23] Curtin, Creation Myths of Primitive America, Intro., p. 35. [↑]
[24] Relaciones (Chavero’s edition; Mexico, 1891), p. 11. Hist. Chichimeca (Chavero’s edition; Mexico, 1892), p. 21. [↑]
[25] Among the American races the soul was thought of as residing in the bones. See Brinton, Myths of the New World, pp. 295 ff., 299, 321. [↑]
[26] Anales de Quauhtitlan. [↑]
[27] Translation of interpretation in Kingsborough, vol. vi, p. 127. [↑]
[29] See Rady y Delgado’s reproduction of this Codex, Madrid, 1892. [↑]
[30] The colours associated with the points of the compass were: East, yellow; north, red; west, blue; south, white. [↑]
[31] For the further relation of the gods to time and space see the appendix on the tonalamatl. [↑]