Note 53 — Chapter III

The fullest versions of the Mexican cosmic ages, or "Suns," are: (a) Ixtlilxochitl (Historia Chichimeca, I. i; Relaciones, ed. Kingsborough, ix. 321 ff., 459); (b) Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas, i-viii—the narrative which most resembles a primitive myth; (c) Anales de Cuauhtitlan (ed. Ramirez, pp. 9-11), partly translated into French by Brasseur de Bourbourg [a], i. Appendice, pp. 425-27, where the version of the deluge myth is given; (d) Spiegazione dette tavole del Codice Mexicano (i.e. Codex Vaticanus A), where Plates VII-X are described as symbols of the Suns; though a discordant explanation is given in connexion with Plate V. Other authorities are Gómara [b], p. 431; Muñoz Camargo, p. 132; Humboldt [a], ii, Plate XXVI; and especially Charency [a], who makes a comparative study of the myth. Monumental evidences are discussed by Seler [a], ii, "Die Ausgrabungen am Orte des Haupttempels in Mexico," and by MacCurdy [a]. Maya forms of the myth are sketched infra, pp. 153-55; cf. pp. 159 ff.