Montezuma hearkened to these matters in silence, and felt greatly troubled. He left his sister’s presence without a word, and, regaining his own apartments, plunged into melancholy thoughts.
Papantzin’s resurrection is one of the best authenticated incidents in Mexican history, and it is a curious fact that on the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores one of the first persons to embrace Christianity and receive baptism at their hands was the Princess Papan.
Mexican Deity
From the Vienna Codex
[1] See the author’s article on “American Creation-Myths” in the Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, vol. iv. [↑]
[2] The suffix tzin after a Mexican name denotes either “lord” or “lady,” according to the sex of the person alluded to. [↑]