INDEX AND GLOSSARY
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
Potosi. Peruvian city, 248
Powell. History of Wales, cited, 5
Poyauhtecatl, Mount. In Quetzalcoatl myth, 65
Ppapp-Hol-Chac (The House of Heads and Lightnings). Ruin at Itzamal, 187
Priesthood, Mexican, 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
Pucara. Peruvian fortress-city; leader in the Huanca alliance, 282
Pueblo Indians. Probably related to Nahua, 24
Pulque The universal Mexican beverage, 45
Pulque-gods, 104-105
Puma-puncu. Door to be passed before reaching Rock of Titicaca, 311
Puma-Snake. Mixtec deer-god; in creation-myth, 120
Pumatampu. Place in Peru; Inca Roca defeats the Conti-suyu at, 283
Purunpacha. The period after the deluge when there was no king, in Peru, 324
Pyramid of Sacrifice. Ruin at Uxmal, 194
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Quäaqua. Sun-god of the Salish Indians, 83
Quacamayo Birds. In a myth of the Canaris Indians, 319
Quaquiutl. Indian tribe, 83
Quatlapanqui (The Head-splitter). A pulgue-god, 104
Quatavita, The Lake of. The Chibchas and, 276
Quauhquauhtinchan (House of the Eagles). Sacrifice to the sun in, 99
Quauhtitlan. Place mentioned in legend of Quetzalcoatl's journey from Tollan, 64
Quauhxicalli (Cup of the Eagles). Mexican sacrificial stone, 99, 100
Quauitleua. Festival of Tlaloc, 77
Quauitlicac. In myth of Huitzilopochtli's origin, 71,72
Quemada. Place in Mexico; cyclopean ruins at, 32
Quenti-Puncu. Door to be passed before reaching Rock of Titicaca, 311
Quetzalcoatl ("Feathered Serpent" or "Feathered Staff").
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