[83] Hist. Ecles., pp. 82, 86, 92–93, 97–98. [↑]

[84] Hist. Ecles., p. 82. [↑]

[85] A Lacandone Indian tribe near Palenque. [↑]

[86] Land of Chivim. [↑]

[87] The myths relating to him under the name of Tohil appear to me to identify Tohil more with Tezcatlipocâ. See Brassuer, Le Vuh Popol, passim. [↑]

[88] The circumstance that the two high-priests of Mexico, the pontiffs of the cults of Uitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, had the name Quetzalcoatl prefixed to their official descriptions merely indicates that it had passed into a sacerdotal title. They were in no special sense attached to the worship of the god. [↑]

[89] He was, of course, all of these, but as regards the two latter, in a subsidiary sense only. [↑]

[90] Spanish, hurican; French, ouragan; English, hurricane. [↑]

[91] Sahagun reverses the process by calling Quetzalcoatl “a man who became a god,” bk. i, c. v. [↑]

[92] See my article on these books in vol. iii of Hastings’ Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics. [↑]