All that concerns my present purpose is to treat of them so far as they are connected with the mythology of the race.

Incidentally, however, this will throw some light on these obscure points, and at any rate enable us to dismiss certain prevalent assumptions as erroneous.
One of these is the notion that the Toltecs were the originators of Yucatan culture.

I hope I have said enough in the previous chapter to exorcise permanently from ancient American history these purely imaginary beings.

They have served long enough as the last refuge of ignorance.
Let us rather ask what accounts the Mayas themselves gave of the origin of their arts and their ancestors.
Most unfortunately very meagre sources of information are open to us.

We have no Sahagun to report to us the traditions and prayers of this strange people.