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M.Girard de Rialle, on the other hand, claims him as a solar deity.

"Il est la personnification du soleil sous son aspect corrupteur et destructeur, ennemi des hommes et de la nature." _La Mythologie Comparee_, p.

334 (Paris, 1878).

A closer study of the original authorities would, I am sure, have led M.de Rialle to change this opinion.

He is singularly far from the conclusion reached by M.Ternaux-Compans, who says: "Tezcatlipoca fut la personnification du bon principe." _Essai sur la Theogonie Mexicaine_, p.


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