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. In the story of Queen Móo, 240, 244-245, 246

. District in Guatemala; race-movements and, 150

(Selected Ones). Body of maidens from whom victims for sacrifice were taken in Peru, 313

Houses in which the Acllacuna lived, 313

. District in Mexico,26

(or Acolhuaque) (People of the Broad Shoulder). Mexican race, 26; said to have founded Mexico, 26; a pure Nahua race, perhaps the Toltecs, 26; their supremacy, 48

See Acolhuans

. Work on Mexican lore, 58

Guardian spirit of the potato plant in Peru, 295

Toltec king, son of Huemac II, 17, 19

Ruler of the Kiche, 158-159

. Members of Peruvian tribes who claimed power as oracles, 297-298, 314

Mexican king, 30

a Maya tribe, 172

(Writing in the Dark). A bas-relief at El Castillo, Chichen-Itza, 190

Maya ruins at, 186-187

Superficial resemblance between peoples, customs, and art-forms of Asia and, I; civilisation, native origin of, 1-2, 3, 328; animal and plant life peculiar to, 2; man, origin of, in, 2; geographical connection between Asia and, 3; traditions of intercourse between Asia and, 3; Chinese Fu-Sang and, 3; possible Chinese and Japanese visits to. 3-4; Coronado's expedition to, 4; legends of intercourse between Europe and, 4; "Great Ireland”' probably the same as, 4; St. Brandan's voyage and, 4; reached by early Norsemen, 5; the legend of Madoc and, 5-6; early belief in, respecting incursions from the east, 6; prophecy of Chilan Balam recoming of white men to, 8

Indigenous origin of civilisation of, I; legend of Toltec migration to, 20

(By the Water). Native name of the Mexican plateau, 18. See Mexico

in Peru, 296

The prehistoric civilisation of, 249-250; architectural remains of, 250

Peruvian tribe, 284

Legends of, have no connection with American myth, 6

. One of the four racial divisions of ancient Peru, 255

Island on Lake Titicaca; Huaina Ccapac and the lake-goddess and, 299

Peruvian thunder-god, the "Prince of Evil"; in a creation-myth, 301-302

(Sovereign Chief). Title of the Inca rulers, 248

a drama-legend of the Incas, 251-253

(Great Speaker). River in Peru; regarded as an oracle, 296

A bird-maiden; in the myth of origin of the Canaris, 319

(Fire-bird). Same as Kinich-ahau, which see

. I. Of the Nahua, 31-34. II. Of the Maya, 149-150, 178-198; the most individual expression of the people, 178; Yucatan exhibits the most perfect specimens, and the decadent phase, 178;

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