Cipactonal chose the first name, Oxomuco the second, and Quetzalcoatl the third, and so on in turn.[1] [Footnote 1: Mendieta, _Hist.

Eclesiastia Indiana_, Lib.

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"Una tonta ficcion," comments the worthy chronicler upon the narrative, "como son las demas que creian cerca de sus dioses." This has been the universal opinion.

My ambition in writing this book is, that it will be universal no longer.] In many mythologies the gods of light and warmth are, by a natural analogy, held to be also the deities which preside over plenty, fertility and reproduction.