Note 2 — Chapter XII · MINOR DEITIES

At the same time he seems to me to have affinities with the Zapotec and Maya lightning-dog peche-xolo2 and may represent the lightning which descends from the thunder-cloud, the flash, the reflection of which arouses in many primitive people the belief that the lightning is “double,” and leads them to suppose a connection between the lightning and twins, or other phenomena of a twofold kind. As the dog, too, he has a connection with Hades, and, said myth, was dispatched thence for the bones from which man was created.