Ueber die Aztekischen Orstnamen_,[TN-2] p.682.Those who have attempted to make history from these mythological fables have been much puzzled about the location of this mystic land.

Humboldt has placed it on the northwest coast, Cabrera at Palenque, Clavigero north of Anahuac, etc.etc.

Aztlan, literally, the White Land, is another name of wholly mythical purport, which it would be equally vain to seek on the terrestrial globe.

In the extract in the text, the word translated God is _Qabavil_, an old word for the highest god, either from a root meaning to open, to disclose, or from one of similar form signifying to wonder, to marvel; literally, therefore, the Revealer, or the Wondrous One (_Vocab.

de la Lengua Quiche_, p.