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methods of building, 178-179; ignorance of some first principles, 179; mural decoration 179; pyramidal buildings, 180 definiteness of design, 180 architectural districts, 181; not of great antiquity, 182; Father Burgoa on the palace at Mitla, 199-201. III. Of the Incas, 268-269; the art in which the race showed greatest advance, 268; Sir Clements Markham on, 269

. On stone-worship in Peru, 293

. Early American, superficial resemblance to that of Asia, I; native origin and unique character of American, 1-2; Toltec, 23; Peruvians weak in, 248

Origin of early American culture erroneously attributed to, I; man originally came to America from, 2; former land-connection between America and, 3; traditions of intercourse between America and, 3

Supreme divinity of the Peruvians; in a creation-myth, 301

(Fast of Porridge-balls and Water). Nahua festival, 77

Mythical wizard-king of the Iroquois, 72

Son of the Inca Huaina Ccapac; strives for the crown with Huascar, 289-290

(Water). Mexican deity; often confounded with the moon-goddess, 106

Legends of, have no connection with American myth, 6

(Warrior). Peruvian order of knighthood; instituted by Pachacutic, 287

. And Peruvian fetishes, 295

The god assigned to Balam-Agab in the Kiche story of the creation, 230; turned into stone, 231

Father of Chachiuhnenetzin, the vicious wife of Nezahualpilli, 129

Mexican king, 92

Peruvian race, 254-255; fusion with Quichua, 285-286

The Sondor-huasi at, 269

Mexican town, 26; rivalry with Tezcuco, 49; Aztecs and, 52

(Crane People). A nomad Mexican tribe, 27, 50-51; racial affinities, 27; character, 27-28; Tlascalans and, 26; founders of Tenochtitlan (Mexico), 27; their science, 43; in bondage to Colhuacan, 51; allied with Tecpanecs, 51; war with Tecpanecs, 52; development of the empire, 52; commercial expansion, 52; their tyranny, 52-53; their conception of eternity, 55; the priesthood, 114-117; idea of the origin of mankind, 123; a migration myth of, 233

(Crane Land). Traditional place of origin of Nahua, II; Aztecs and, 50, 233

Genii in Maya mythology, 170

(Tiger of the Night). One of the first men of the Popol Vuh myth, 229, 230

(Tiger with the Sweet Smile). An ancestor of the Maya, 188; one of the first men of the Popol Vuh myth, 229, 230

. Form of the Maya rain-god, 176

Typical of the underworld, 96

Maya deity, known also as Camazotz, 171-172

In Mexican calendar, 39, 41 344