Note 1110 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER (continued 2)
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E. J. Payne, History of the New World called America, i. (Oxford, 1892) pp. 520–523; K. Th. Preuss, in Verhandlungen der Berliner anthropologischen Gesellschaft, November 15, 1902, pp. (449) sq., (457) sq.; id., “Die Feuergötter als Ausgangspunkt zum Verständnis der mexikanischen Religion,” Mitteilungen der anthropolog. Gesellschaft in Wien, xxxiii. (1903) pp. 157 sq., 163. A Mexican legend relates how in the beginning the gods sacrificed themselves by fire in order to set the sun in motion. See B. de Sahagun, Histoire générale des choses de la Nouvelle Espagne, bk. vii. ch. 2, pp. 478 sqq. (French trans. by Jourdanet and Simeon).