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composition originally, 237-238. The first book: The creation, 209; the downfall of man, 209-210; story of Vukub-Cakix, 210-213; the undoing of Zipacna, 213-216; the overthrow of Cabrakan, 216-219; the creation-story probably the result of the fusion of several myths, 235. The second book: Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu descend to the Under-world, 220-221; Hunhun-Apu and Xquiq, 222; birth and exploits of Hun-Apu and Xbalanque, 223-224; the hero-brothers in Xibalba, and the discomfiture of the Lords of Hell, 225-227; the conception in this book common to other mythologies, 228; the savage dread of death probably responsible for the conception of its vanquishment, 228; other sources of the myth, 228. The third book: Man is created, 229; woman is created, 230; gods are vouchsafed to man, 230; Tohil provides fire, 230-231; the race is confounded in speech and migrates, 231; the sun appears, 231; death of the first men, 232; resemblance of the myth to those of other American peoples, 232; similarity of the migration-story to others, 233-234; probable origin of the migration-myth, 234-235. The fourth book, 238-239

Peruvian city, 248

History of Wales, cited, 5

Mount. In Quetzalcoatl myth, 65

(The House of Heads and Lightnings). Ruin at Itzamal, 187

114-117; power of, 114; beneficent ministrations of, 115; revenues of, 115; education conducted by, 115-116; orders of, 116; rigorous existence of, 116-117

Peruvian fortress-city; leader in the Huanca alliance, 282

Probably related to Nahua, 24

The universal Mexican beverage, 45

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Door to be passed before reaching Rock of Titicaca, 311

Mixtec deer-god; in creation-myth, 120

Place in Peru; Inca Roca defeats the Conti-suyu at, 283

The period after the deluge when there was no king, in Peru, 324

Ruin at Uxmal, 194

Sun-god of the Salish Indians, 83

In a myth of the Canaris Indians, 319

Indian tribe, 83

(The Head-splitter). A pulgue-god, 104

The Chibchas and, 276

(House of the Eagles). Sacrifice to the sun in, 99

Place mentioned in legend of Quetzalcoatl's journey from Tollan, 64

(Cup of the Eagles). Mexican sacrificial stone, 99, 100

Festival of Tlaloc, 77

In myth of Huitzilopochtli's origin, 71,72

Place in Mexico; cyclopean ruins at, 32

Door to be passed before reaching Rock of Titicaca, 311

("Feathered Serpent" or "Feathered Staff").

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