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The Kukulcan of the Maya, god of the sun, the wind, and thunder, common to Mexican and Maya mythologies; Mexican legend of, 6-7; probably cognate with Yetl, 12; king of the Toltecs in Nahua myth, 21; Tezcatlipoca and, 60, 79; Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, and Tlacahuepan plot against, 60; quits Tollan and proceeds to Tlapallan, 64-65, 79; probably a god of pre-Nahua people, 78; "Father of the Toltecs," 79; enlightened sway as ruler of Tollan, 79; consequences of his exile, 79; legend of, in connection with the morning star, 80, 96; whether rightly considered god of the sun, 80; conception of, as god of the air, 80; as wind-god and god of fire and light, 80-81; whether originating from a "culture-hero," 81; the "St. Thomas" idea, 81; as Man of the Sun, 81-82; as usually represented, 82; regarded as a liberator, 82; various conceptions of, 82-84, 167; probable northern origin, 83; Hueymatzin and, 84; the worship of, 84-85; the priesthood of, 116; place in the Mexican calendar, 122; vogue among Maya, 144, 167; regarded as foreign to the soil in Mexico, 167; differences in the Maya and Nahua conceptions of, 167; called Kukulcan by the Maya, 167; called Gucumatz in Guatemala, 167, 236; God B probably is, 173

Female counterpart of Quetzalcoatl, 79

Same as Kiche, which see

Peruvian race, 254-255; fusion of, with Aymara, 285-286

The Inca race. See Incas

One of the four racial divisions of ancient Peru, 255

Earth-giants; in Toltec creation-myth, 120

Grotto, mentioned in Aztec migration-myth, 233

Guardian spirit of the quinua plant, in Peru,

Cords used by the Incas for records and communications, 278-279; account of the use of, by the Marquis de Nadaillac, 278-279

Sometime centre of the northern district of Peru, 286, 289

A sub-god of Hurakan, 237

I. Of the Nahua, 54-55; the worship of one god, 28-59. II. Of the Peruvians, 291; inferior to the Mexican, 248; the legend relating to the evolution of, 305-306

Sometime centre of the northern district of Peru, 286

Research on the Maya writing by, 161-162

Inca general; in the drama Apu-Ollanta, 252-253

In connection with Teotleco festival, 69; with Toxcatl festival, 69-70; with Tlaloc, 76-77; displaced by "substitution of part for whole," 85, 116; in the Xalaquia festival, 87; in connection with Xipe, 93; Xolotl the representative of, 93; in worship of the planet Venus, 96; in sun-worship, 98-100, 101; the keynote of Nahua mythology, 166; among the Maya, 166; at Mitla, described by Father Burgoa, 202-203; among the Chibchas, 276; in Peru, 313

the legend of the, 123-124

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