Compare also Herrera, _Historia de las Indias Occidentals_, Dec.

ii, Lib.

vii, cap.

xvii, who describes the temple of Quetzalcoatl, in the city of Mexico, and adds that it was circular, "porque asi como el Aire anda al rededor del Cielo, asi le hacian el Templo redondo."] Still another symbol which was sacred to him as lord of the four winds was the Cross.

It was not the Latin but the Greek cross, with four short arms of equal length.