Yet Sahagun says the Toltecs were the real Chichimecs (Lib.

x, cap.

xxix).

In the myth we are now considering, they were plainly the stars.] It is not hard to guess who are these four hundred youths slain before the sun rises, destined to be restored to life and yet again destroyed.

The veil of metaphor is thin which thus conceals to our mind the picture of the myriad stars quenched every morning by the growing light, but returning every evening to their appointed places.