Chapter IX: Gods, Supernatural Beings, and Worship

The Mother or all-nourishing Goddess under various names and in
various aspects -- Her Feast in the Eleventh Aztec month
Ochpaniztli -- Festivals of the Eighth month, Hueytecuilhuitl,
and of the Fourth, Hueytozoztli -- The deification of women that
died in child-birth -- The Goddess of Water under various Names
and in various aspects -- Ceremonies of the Baptism or
Lustration of children -- The Goddess of Love, her various names
and aspects -- Rites of confession and absolution -- The God of
fire and his various names -- His festivals in the tenth month
Xocotlveti and in the eighteenth month Yzcali; also his
quadriennial festival in the latter month -- The great festival
of every fifty-two years; lighting the new fire -- The God of
Hades, and Teoyaomique, collector of the souls of the fallen
brave -- Deification of dead rulers and heroes -- Mixcoatl, God
of hunting, and his feast in the fourteenth month, Quecholli --
Various other Mexican deities -- Festival in the second month,
Tlacaxipehualiztli, with notice of the gladiatorial sacrifices
-- Complete Synopsis of the festivals of the Mexican Calendar,
fixed and movable -- Temples and Priests 349

CHAPTER X.

GODS, SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, AND WORSHIP.

Revenues of the Mexican Temples -- Vast number of the Priests --
Mexican Sacerdotal System -- Priestesses -- The Orders of
Tlamaxcacayotl and Telpochtiliztli -- Religious Devotees --
Baptism -- Circumcision -- Communion -- Fasts and Penance --
Blood-drawing -- Human Sacrifices -- The Gods of the Tarascos --
Priests and Temple Service of Michoacan -- Worship in Jalisco --
Oajaca -- Votan and Quetzalcoatl -- Travels of Votan -- The
Apostle Wixepecocha -- Cave near Xustlahuaca -- The Princess
Pinopiaa -- Worship of Costahuntox -- Tree Worship 430

CHAPTER XI.

GODS, SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, AND WORSHIP.

Maya Pantheon -- Zamná -- Cukulcan -- The Gods of Yucatan -- The
Symbol of the Cross in America -- Human Sacrifices in Yucatan --
Priests of Yucatan -- Guatemalan Pantheon -- Tepeu and Hurakan
-- Avilix and Hacavitz -- The Heroes of the Sacred Book --
Quiché Gods -- Worship of the Choles, Manches, Itzas,
Lacandones, and others -- Tradition of Comizahual -- Fasts --
Priests of Guatemala -- Gods, Worship, and Priests of Nicaragua
-- Worship on the Mosquito Coast -- Gods and Worship of the
Isthmians -- Phallic Worship in America 461

CHAPTER XII.

FUTURE STATE.

Aboriginal Ideas of Future -- General Conceptions of Souls --
Future State of the Aleuts, Chepewyans, Natives at Milbank
Sound, and Okanagans -- Happy Land of the Salish and Chinooks --
Conceptions of Heaven and Hell of the Nez Percés, Flatheads, and
Haidahs -- The Realms of Quawteaht and Chayher -- Beliefs of the
Songhies, Clallams, and Pend d'Oreilles -- The Future State of
the Californian and Nevada Tribes, Comanches, Pueblos, Navajos,
Apaches, Moquis, Maricopas, Yumas, and others -- The Sun House
of the Mexicans -- Tlalocan and Mictlan -- Condition of the Dead
-- Journey of the Dead -- Future of the Tlascaltecs and other
Nations 510

LANGUAGES.

CHAPTER I.