[36-[+]] Bancroft, ubi suprà, p. 705, note. One was hanged, whom Garcia Pelaez calls "una india bruja." _Memorias para la Historia de Guatemala_, Tom. ii, p. 153.
[37-*] _Voyage á l' Isthmus de Tehuantepec_, p. 164. He adds a number of particulars of the power she was supposed to exercise.
[38-*] "Que era venerado en todo el imperio de Montezuma." See _Diccionario Universal_, Appendice, s. v. (Mexico, 1856).
[38-[+]] "Dass der Gott Tepeyollotl im Zapotekenlande und weiter südwärts seine Wurzeln hat, und dem eigentlichen Aztekischen Olymp fremd ist, darüber kann kein Zweifel mehr obwalten." See Dr. Seler's able discussion of the subject in the _Compte-Rendu_ of the Seventh International Congress of Americanists, p. 559, _seq._ The adoption of subterranean temples was peculiarly a Zapotecan trait. "Notandose principalmente en muchos adoratorios de los Zapotecos, estan los mas de ellos cubiertos, ò en subterraneos espaciosos y lòbregos." Carriedo, _Estudios Historicos_, Tom. i, p. 26.
[39-*] _Constituciones Diocesanas_, pp. 9, 10.
[39-[+]] Gage, _A New Survey of the West Indies_, pp. 389, 393.
[39-[++]] _Teatro Mexicano_, Tratado iii, cap. 11. Mr. Bandelier has called attention to the naming of one of the principal chiefs among the Aztecs, _Tlilancalqui_, "Man of the Dark House," and thinks it related to the Votan myth. _Twelfth Annual Report of the Peabody Museum_, p. 689.
[40-*] Herrera, _Historia de las Indias Occidentales_, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 14.
[40-[+]] Villa Señor, _Teatro Americano_, Lib. v, cap. 38 (Mexico, 1747). Father Cavo adds that there were signs of human sacrifices present, but of this I can find no evidence in the earlier reports. Comp. Cavo, _Los Tres Siglos de Mexico durante el Gobierno Españal[TN-14]_, Tom. ii, p. 128.
[40-[++]] _Teatro Americano_, Lib. ii, cap. 11; Lib. iii, cap. 13.
[41-*] See Mühlenpfordt, _Mexico_, Bd. ii, pp. 200-266; Brasseur, _Hist. des Nations Civ. de la Mexique_, Vol. iv, p. 821; Herrera, _Historia de las Indias_, Dec. iii, Lib. iii, cap. 12, etc.
[41-[+]] _Diccionario Universal_, Appendice, s. v.
[41-[++]] Their names were Ta Yoapa, Father Dawn; Ta Te, Father Stone; Coanamoa, the Serpent which Seizes. _Dicc. Univ._, App., Tom. iii, p. 11.