Popocatepetl. The mountain; sacred to Tlaloc, [77]
Popolcan. Aboriginal Mexican race, [24]
“Popol Vuh” (The Collection of Written Leaves). A volume of Maya-Kiche mythology and history, [152], [157], [158];
description, [207]–209;
genuine character, [208];
probable date of composition, [235];
antiquity, [236], [238];
the gods and others mentioned in, [236]–237;
probably a metrical composition originally, [237]–238.
The first book:
The creation, [209];
the downfall of man, [209]–210;
story of Vukub-Cakix, [210]–213;
the undoing of Zipacna, [213]–216;
the overthrow of Cabrakan, [216]–219;
the creation-story probably the result of the fusion of several myths, [235].
The second book:
Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu descend to the Underworld, [220]–221;
Hunhun-Apu and Xquiq, [222];
birth and exploits of Hun-Apu and Xbalanque, [223]–224;
the hero-brothers in Xibalba, and the discomfiture of the Lords of Hell, [225]–227;
the conception in this book common to other mythologies, [228];
the savage dread of death probably responsible for the conception of its vanquishment, [228];
other sources of the myth, [228].
The third book:
Man is created, [229];
woman is created, [230];
gods are vouchsafed to man, [230];
Tohil provides fire, [230]–231;
the race is confounded in speech and migrates, [231];
the sun appears, [231];
death of the first men, [232];
resemblance of the myth to those of other American peoples, [232];
similarity of the migration-story to others, [233]–234;
probable origin of the migration-myth, [234]–235.
The fourth book, [238]–239
Potosi. Peruvian city, [248]
Powel. History of Wales, cited, [5]
Poyauhtecatl, Mount. In Quetzalcoatl myth, [65]
Ppapp-Hol-Chac (The House of Heads and Lightnings). Ruin at Itzamal, [187]
Priesthood, Mexican, [114]–117;
power of, [114];
beneficent ministrations of, [115];
revenues of, [115];
education conducted by, [115]–116;
orders of, [116];
rigorous existence of, [116]–117
Pucara. Peruvian fortress-city; leader in the Huanca alliance, [282]
Pueblo Indians. Probably related to Nahua, [24]