x; _Codex Telleriano-Remensis_, Pt.
ii, Lam.ii.The name is from _chalchihuitl_, jade, and _vitztli_, the thorn used to pierce the tongue, ears and penis, in sacrifice.
_Chimalman_, more correctly, _Chimalmatl_, is from _chimalli_, shield, and probably, _matlalin_, green.] This, also, is evidently an ancient and simple figure of speech to express that the breath of Morning announces the dawn which brings forth the sun and disappears in the act.
The virgin mother Chimalman, in another legend, is said to have been brought with child by swallowing a jade or precious green stone (_chalchihuitl_);[1] while another averred that she was not a virgin, but the wife of Camaxtli (Tezcatlipoca);[2] or again, that she was the second wife of that venerable old man who was the father of the seven sons from whom all tribes speaking the Nahuatl language, and several who did not speak it (Otomies, Tarascos), were descended.[3] This latter will repay analysis.
[Footnote 1: Mendieta, _Historia Eclesiastica Indiana_, Lib.

ii, cap.

vi.] [Footnote 2: Ibid.] [Footnote 3: Motolinia, _Historia de los Indios de Nueva Espana, Epistola Proemial_, p.10.The first wife was Ilancueitl, from _ilantli_, old woman, and _cueitl_, skirt.

Gomara, _Conquista de Mejico_, p.

432.] All through Mexico and Central America this legend of the Seven Sons, Seven Tribes, the Seven Caves whence they issued, or the Seven Cities where they dwelt, constantly crops out.