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mars, has left a very curious account of the cosmogony 
of Anahuac. (Marieta, Tercera Parte de la Historia 
Eclesiastica, 1596, pag. 48.) The god Citlalatonac 
was united to the goddess Citlalicue : the fruit of this 
union was a stone, a flint, tecpatl, which fell on the 
Earth, near a place called the Seven Caverns, Chico- 
moztotl. This hetylium is found among the hierogly 
phics of the years and the days. It was an aerolite, a 
divine stone, a teotetl^ which, in breaking, produced 
1600 subaltern divinities, inhabitants of the Earth, 
who, finding themselves without slaves to serve them, 
obtained from their mother the permission of creating 
men. Citlalicue ordered Xolotl, one of the gods of the 
Earth, to go down to hell in search of a bone ; and 
this bone, broken like the aerolite, or tecpatl, gave birth 
to mankind. (Torquemada, T. ii, p. 82.) According 
to this same tradition, the first man, Iztacmixcuatly or 
Iztacmixcohuatly dwelt at Chicomoztotl, where he at- 
tained a very advanced age. His wife, llancueitly bore 
him six sons, from whom descended all the nations of 
Anahuac. Xelhua, the oldest of his sons, peopled 
Quauhyuechola, Tzoca, Epatlan, Teopantla, Tehua- 
can, Cozcatla, and Totetlan. Tenuch, the second, was 
the father of the Tenuches, or Mexicans properly so 
called. Ulmecatl and Xicalancatl^ from whom de- 
scended the Olmecks and the Xicalancks, peopled the 
environs of Tlascala, Cuatzacualco, and Totomihua- 
can. Mixtecatl and Otomitl became the chiefs of the 
Mixtecks and the Otomites. (Torquemada, T. i, p. 34 
and 35.) This genealogy of the nations reminds us of 
the ethnographical table of Moses ; and it is so much 
the more remarkable, as theToltecks and the Aztecks, 
among whom this tradition is found, considered them-- 
selves as belonging to a privileged race, very different 
