Note 45 — Chapter II

The meaning of Tamoanchan is discussed by Preuss, "Feuergötter," who regards it as an underworld region; by Beyer, in Anthropos, iii, who explains it as the Milky Way; and by Seler [a], ii, "Die religiösen Gesänge der alten Mexikaner," and [e] (see index), who identifies it with the western region, the house of the evening sun. Xolotl is discussed, in the same connexions, by Seler; see especially [b], pp. 108-12. The myth from Sahagun is in VII. ii; those from Mendieta in II. i, ii.