Bk. ii. c. viii.

Bk. x, c. xix.

Hist. de Tlaxcallan, c. v.

This deer is two-headed; so is Quaxolotl a variant of Chantico, the Fire-goddess, with whom Itzpapalotl seems to have many points of resemblance.

See Xochipilli.

In some myths of the Old World the butterfly is the soul or ghost. This would explain her connection with the Ciuateteô, or dead women.