Note 18 — OF THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THE INDIANS OF YUCATAN IN 1545
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Echuac is Ek Chua, said by Landa to be the god of the cacao planters, hence, as cacao-beans were the medium of exchange, the god of merchants, as here related. It is difficult to understand the confusion by which this god has been interwoven in Christian beliefs as the Holy Ghost.