The circumstance that the two high-priests of Mexico, the pontiffs of the cults of Uitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, had the name Quetzalcoatl prefixed to their official descriptions merely indicates that it had passed into a sacerdotal title. They were in no special sense attached to the worship of the god.

He was, of course, all of these, but as regards the two latter, in a subsidiary sense only.

Spanish, hurican; French, ouragan; English, hurricane.

Sahagun reverses the process by calling Quetzalcoatl “a man who became a god,” bk. i, c. v.

See my article on these books in vol. iii of Hastings’ Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.

This, too, accounts for his identification with the planet Venus, which also had a calendric connection, and therefore as the herald of the dawn, and the child of the virgin goddess Chimalman or Chalchihuitlicue in her guise as Moon-goddess.

Votan was likewise a builder of subterranean houses and was worshipped in caves. The god of the rain-cult is, indeed, regarded as master of the streams which flow under the earth. See Brinton, Nagualism, p. 41.