Curtin, Creation Myths of Primitive America, Intro., p. 35.

Relaciones (Chavero’s edition; Mexico, 1891), p. 11. Hist. Chichimeca (Chavero’s edition; Mexico, 1892), p. 21.

Among the American races the soul was thought of as residing in the bones. See Brinton, Myths of the New World, pp. 295 ff., 299, 321.

Anales de Quauhtitlan.

Translation of interpretation in Kingsborough, vol. vi, p. 127.

P. 120.

See Rady y Delgado’s reproduction of this Codex, Madrid, 1892.

The colours associated with the points of the compass were: East, yellow; north, red; west, blue; south, white.