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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations, Volume 2

Note 834 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.

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'Le ponian los vestidos del Dios, que tenia por mas Principal en su Pueblo, en cuia Casa, ò Templo, ò Patio se havia de enterrar.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 521; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 93-5. Duran mentions an instance where a king was dressed in the mantles of four different gods. Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix.; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 309.

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