Lib. x, c. xiii.

A species of wild laurel.

The custom of wearing a mask of the deity worshipped (in this case the slain woman represented the goddess) is widespread.

Sahagun, bk. ii.

Appendix to bk. ii.

Who, like several of the older Spanish authorities, regarded Cinteotl as a goddess, a belief now exploded. See vol. i, bk. vi (English translation).

It might be quoted against this view that the lewd life of pleasure of which Xochipilli and Macuilxochitl are the representatives results in that death which is the child of sin, and that these gods are therefore “brothers” to Cinteotl in this especial connection. Seler, Comm. Codex Fej.-Mayer, p. 66; Comm. Codex Vat. B, pp. 207–208.

Sahagun, bk. ix, c. xvii.

Sahagun MS.