Note 6 — Chapter IX · STELLAR AND PLANETARY DEITIES
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“Mixcoatl” is the expression in use at the present time among the natives of Mexico for the tropical whirlwind6—obviously a much later conception of his nature, and one more intimately connected with that of Tezcatlipocâ, as I have attempted to show in the passages relating to that god, and to Quetzalcoatl. There is, indeed, a strong resemblance between Mixcoatl and Tezcatlipocâ, both of whom are connected with obsidian, and carry the hunter’s bag of obsidian darts.