de los Mexicanos_, cap.

viii.] [Footnote 2: _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib.

vi, cap.xxiv._Camaxtli_ is also found in the form _Yoamaxtli_; this shows that it is a compound of _maxtli_, covering, clothing, and _ca_, the substantive verb, or in the latter instance, _yoalli_, night; hence it is, "the Mantle," or, "the garb of night" ("la faja nocturna," _Anales del Museo Nacional_, Tom.

ii, p.
363).] Another myth represents him as the immediate son of the All-Father Tonaca tecutli, under his title Citlallatonac, the Morning, by an earth-born maiden in Tollan.

In that city dwelt three sisters, one of whom, an unspotted virgin, was named Chimalman.