The Myths of Mexico & Peru

by Lewis Spence

Xalaquia.
I. Festival of Chicomecohuatl, [86]–87.
II. The victim sacrificed at the Xalaquia festival, [87], [90]

Xalisco. District in Mexico Toltecs in, [12]

Xaltocan. Mexican city, [50]

Xan. An animal mentioned in Popol Vuh myth, [225]

Xaquixahuana. Place in Peru, [284]

Xauxa. Place in Peru, [285]

Xbakiyalo. Wife of Hunhun-Apu, [220]

Xbalanque (Little Tiger). A hero-god, twin with Hun-Apu; in a Kiche myth, [211]–219;
in the myth in the second book of the Popol Vuh, [220], [223]–227;
mentioned, [237]

Xecotcovach. Bird in the Kiche story of the creation, [209]

Xibalba.
I. A semi-legendary empire of the Maya, [144].
II. The Kiche Hades, “Place of Phantoms”; in the myth in the second book of the Popol Vuh, [220]–222, [225]–227;
possible origin of the conception, [229];
properly a “place of the dead,” [229];
origin of the name, [229]