Vetancurt, A. de. On Mexican mythology, [58]
Villa-coto. Mountain; in a Peruvian flood-myth, [323]–324
Villagutierre, J. de Soto-Mayor. And the prophecy of Chilan Balam, [8]
Viollet-le-Duc, E. On the ruined palace at Mitla, [197]
Viracocha.
I. Eighth Inca, [284], [318].
II. Peruvian deity;
temple of, at Cacha, [270];
regarded as son of the sun, [306];
worshipped by Quichua-Aymara as a culture hero, and called Pachayachachic, [307].
III. A higher class of sacred objects of the Peruvians, [294].
IV. Name given to any more than usually sacred being, [301]
Vitzillopochtli. Same as Huitzilopochtli; in an Aztec migration-myth, [233]
Voc. A bird, the messenger of Hurakan; in Popol Vuh myth, [225]
Votan. Maya god, identical with Tepeyollotl; God L probably is, [176]
Vukub-Cakix (Seven-times-the-colour-of-fire). A sun-and-moon god (Dr. Seler); in a Kiche myth recounted in the Popol Vuh, [210]–213;
possibly an earth-god, [237]
Vukub-Came. One of the rulers of Xibalba, the Kiche Hades, [220], [221], [224]