But on one point there was unanimity.

Quetzalcoatl was gone; but _he would return_.
In his own good time, in the sign of his year, when the ages were ripe, once more he would come from the east, surrounded by his fair-faced retinue, and resume the sway of his people and their descendants.
Tezcatlipoca had conquered, but not for aye.

The immutable laws which had fixed the destruction of Tollan assigned likewise its restoration.

Such was the universal belief among the Aztec race.
For this reason Quetzalcoatl's statue, or one of them, was in a reclining position and covered with wrappings, signifying that he was absent, "as of one who lays him down to sleep, and that when he should awake from that dream of absence, he should rise to rule again the land."[1] [Footnote 1: Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib.

vi, cap.xxiv.So in Egyptian mythology Tum was called "the concealed or imprisoned god, in a physical sense the Sun-god in the darkness of night, not revealing himself, but alive, nevertheless." Tiele, _History of the Egyptian Religion_, p.