1888,] 645 (Phillips. 
deluge, Her name signifies “The woman adorned with a dress of precious 
stones, According to Sahagun she was the sister of the Tlalocs, the rain gods 
(Codex Troano, 102). 
Chalchiuhtteuh, a modo de Esmeralda, Sandoval, Gram, Mex.,, 53. 
12 Aleangia, literally, © money-jug of earthenware, 
138 JTunchback. It was the custom among the Aztec lords to have among their 
attendants for their diversion hunchbacks, just as the Mediseval barons had in 
their train their fools and jesters, The sacred cavern was that of Cincaleo. 
Quetzalcoatl was followed in his passage of the Sierra Nevada by hunchbacks, 
who mostly froze to death (A. H. M., 115), These formed part of the suite of the 
last Montezuma, They were interred with their Caciques., (Herrera ii, 165.) 
Chalco, seems to be derived from Challi, an emerald. Buschman, 689. 
M4 Qalled Qipagli in preceding part of the chapter, 
Cipactli (A. A. M., 74, 126), the great fish. Cf, the fish Oannes in the Chaldean 
mythology, Dagon of the Philistines and Phoenicians, Pisces of the Syrian and 
Egyptian Zodiac; supposed to be sun myths, the sun rising out of the Kast. 
Cipoconal and Oxomuco, the first created pair, qy. pisces of the Zodiac, &e, 
Note 9. Chavero (Anales I, vir, 245) considers Cipactli the first light below the 
horizon. 
Jesus is represented as a fish, because the Messiah in the Talmud is called Dug, 
i.e, the fish. King’s Gnostie’s and their remains, 138, 
b Tlaltecli, the earth, from tlalli, the earth, 
The wife of this son was made of the hairs of the divine mother of 
the four brethren—gods, whose name was Xochiquetzal (Beautiful rose), (A. 
H. M., 73, 74.) 
VW Gareiu (Origin de los Indios, V, 1v, 327), gives a different account of the crea- 
tion of which the following is a résumé: 
“At the distance ofa league anda half from Guaxaca, in an Indian settlement 
named Cuilapa, there is a convent of my order whose Vicar, at the time of my 
coming there, owned a MSS, volume, * * * writtenin the figures used by the 
Mexicans, and with the explanations thereof, setting forth the origin and crea- 
tion of the world, and the deluge, &c. This book I tried by all manner of means 
to obtain, but the holy father set too great a store on it to part with it, but 
permitted me to make such extracts from it as I desired. 
“In the yearand in the day of darkness and clouds, before there were any 
days or years, the world was plunged into total obscurity, and all was chaos and 
confusion; the earth was covered with the waters, and there was nothing but 
mud and débris over the face of the globe. In these days there appeared 
visible to sight a god whose name was the stag (Ciervo), and whose sur- 
name was Lion-viper (Culebra de lion), and a very charming and beautiful 
goddess, whose name was likewise Ciervo, and whose surname was Tiger 
viper (Culebra de tigre). From these divinities originated all the other gods of 
the Indians. As soon as these two gods appeared they took on human shape, 
and being omnipotent and omniscient, they founded a huge rock (Pefia), on 
which they built sumptuous palaces, made with the greatest art, where was 
their home, and their abode on earth; and on the summit of the most lofty part 
of the palaces, there stood an axe of copper with its edge upwards, upon 
which the heavens rested, This rock and the palaces of the gods were on avery 
lofty mountain peak (Cerro) near the pueblo of Apoala, in the Province known 
as Mixteca Alta, This rock, in the language of that people, bore for its name 
The-place-where-the-heaven-was, by which they meant to express that it was 
the Paradise and abode of all manner of pleasure and happiness, and where there 
was an abundance of everything that was good, and where not the slightest ele- 
ment was ever.lacking to complete felicity. This place was where the gods 
abode at their first coming on earth, where they remained many ages in quiet 
and contented rest,as the locality was so pleasant and charming, but the world 
was all in darkness and clouds, * * * Of these gods, the father and mother of 
