[83] Hist. Ecles., pp. 82, 86, 92–93, 97–98. [↑]
[85] A Lacandone Indian tribe near Palenque. [↑]
[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. [↑]