77.] He was not dead.

He had indeed built mansions underground, to the Lord of Mictlan, the abode of the dead, the place of darkness, but he himself did not occupy them.[1] Where he passed his time was where the sun stays at night.

As this, too, is somewhere beneath the level of the earth, it was occasionally spoken of as _Tlillapa_, The Murky Land,[2] and allied therefore to Mictlan.

Caverns led down to it, especially one south of Chapultepec, called _Cincalco_, "To the Abode of Abundance," through whose gloomy corridors one could reach the habitation of the sun and the happy land still governed by Quetzalcoatl and his lieutenant Totec.[3] [Footnote 1: Sahagun, _Historia_, Lib.iii.cap.

ult.] [Footnote 2: Mendieta, _Hist.Eclesiast.Indiana_, Lib.