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(The Country of Tlaloc). Abode of Tlaloc, 76

Gods of moisture; and Huemac II, 16; offspring of Tlaloc, 75

(Navel of the Earth). Name of the abode of Mictlan, 95

Same as Tezcatlipoca, which see

(The Country of Bright Colours). Legendary region, 11; Nahua said to have originated at, 11; the Toltecs and, II; Quetzalcoatl proceeds to, from Tollan, 64-65, 79

(Very Old Tlapallan). In Toltec creation-myth, 119

Place in Mexico; Toltecs at, 12

Mexican city, 47, 48; and the "bloodless battle" with Mexico, 48,98,99; decline, 49

Mexican race, offshoot of the Acolhuans, 26; helped Cortés against Aztecs, 26, 47

(Lord of the Dawn). Name of the planet Venus; myth of Quetzalcoatl and, 80, 96; Quetzalcoatl called, 84; worship of, 96; in the Mexican calendar, 96

Same as Tlascala, which see

(God of Ordure) (or ). Mexican goddess of confession, 106-108

(Ordinary Priests). Lesser order of the Mexican priesthood, 116

(Lord of All Existence). Toltec deity, 119

Use of, among the Nahua, 45

Place in Mexico; Toltecs at, 12

(Our Grandmother). See Teteoinnan

(The Rumbler). Form of Quetzalcoatl, 84; guides the Kiche-Maya to their first city, 152; the god assigned to Balam-Quitze in the Kichemyth of the creation, 230; gives fire to the Kiche, 230-231; turned into stone, 231

Toltec city, modern Tula; founded, 13, 26; its magnificence, 14; afflicted by the gods, 16-17; Huehuetzin's rebellions, 18, 19; overthrown,19; Charnay's excavations at, 34; Tezcatlipoca and the overthrow of, 60; Quetzalcoatl leaves, 64, 79

City of the Acolhuans, 48; Toltecs at, 12

First Nahua immigrants to Mexico, II; whether a real or a mythical race, II, 20-22; at Tlapallan, 11,12; migration route, 12; their migration a forced one, 12; imaginative quality of their myths, 13; elect a king, 14; progress in arts and crafts, 14, 23; under plagues, 17; their empire destroyed, 19, 20; and the civilisation of Central America, 20; Dr. Brinton's theory, 21; Quetzalcoatl king of, 21; possible influence upon Nahua civilisation, 22; Acolhuans may have been, 26; Tezcatlipoca opposes, and plots against, 60-65; and creation-myth recounted by Ixtlilxochitl, 119; theory that the Maya were, 143

(Lady of our Flesh). A name of Omeciuatl, which see

(Lord of our Flesh). A name of Ometecutli, which see

(Book of the Calendar), 107

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

His work on Mexican lore, 57; on Mitla, 199

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