viii, p.

259, note.] His fair complexion was, as usual, significant of light.

This association of ideas was so familiar among the Mexicans that at the time of an eclipse of the sun they sought out the whitest men and women they could find, and sacrificed them, in order to pacify the sun.[1] [Footnote 1: Mendieta, _Historia Eclesiastica Indiana_, Lib.

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xvi.] His opponent, Tezcatlipoca, was the most sublime figure in the Aztec Pantheon.

He towered above all other gods, as did Jove in Olympus.