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represented, 73; associated with the gladiatorial stone, 73; as Mexitli, 74; as serpent-god of lightning, associated with the summer, 74; in connection with Tlaloc, 74; the Toxcatl festival of, 74; the priesthood of, 75; in connection with the legend of the sacrificed princess, 124

(Master, or Magician). A hero-god, twin with Xbalanque; in a Kiche myth, 211-219; in the myth in the second book of the Popol Vuh, 220, 223-227; mentioned, 237

One of the rulers of Xibalba, the Kiche Hades, 220, 221, 224

God of the Maya, representing divine unity, 171

Ruler of the Cocomes, 155

Son of Hunhun-Apu, 220, 222, 223

Son of Hunhun-Apu, 220, 222, 223

Son of Xpiyacoc and Xmucane; in the myth in the second book of the Popol Vuh, 220-222, 224, 225, 227

(Commander-in-Chief of Eight Thousand Flints). The palace of, at Itzamal, 187-188

City at which the Zoque of the Chibchas lived, 276

(The One-legged). Maya god of lightning; prototype of Tlaloc, 76, 78; the mustachioed image of, at Itzamal, 188; = the mighty wind, in the Kiche story of the creation, 209; and the creation of man in the second book of the Popol Vuh, 229-230; probably same as Nahua Tezcatlipoca, 237; his sub-gods, 237

Ruler of the Kiche, 159

(In the Sky). Column in temple at Mexico, connected with the worship of the planet Venus, 96

(The Thunder Vase), Peruvian deity representing the thunderstorm, 301

Sixth Inca, 283

(People of the Sun). The Peruvian ruling race; a composite people, 254; place of origin, 254; inferior to the Mexicans in general culture, 248; mythology of, 255-258, 317-327; character of their civilisation, 259; no personal freedom, 260; age of marriage, 260; their system of mummification, 262-264; severity of their legal code, 264; social system, 264-265; calendar, 265-266; religious festivals, 267; architecture, 268-269; architectural remains, 270-273; irrigation works, 273; possessed no system of writing, 278; the quipos, 278-279; as craftsmen, 279-281; the pottery of, 280-281; period and extent of their dominion, 281-282; fusion of the constituent peoples, 285-285; splitting of the race, 286; their despotism, 290; religion of, 291; sun-worship of, 307-131

The rulers of Peru, 282-290; the Inca the representative of the sun, 260; unlimited power of, 260; the moon the mythic mother of the dynasty, 262

Building sacred to the sun in Peruvian villages, 308

Inca device for marking the date of the sun-festivals, 265

(Great Feast of the Sun). Peruvian festival, 267, 311-312

(Field of the Sun), Garden in which the Coricancha of Cuzco stood, 260-261

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