f
Chiapas, Bishop Nunez de la Vega writes: "Concuerdan los mas modernos
con los mas antiguos que se practicaban en Mexico." _Constituciones
Diocesanas_, p. 134.

[29-[++]] He observes that there were "familias de los tales sabios en
las quales en manera de patrimonio se heredaban, succediendo los hijos a
los padres, y principalmente su abominable secta de Nagualismo."
_Historia del Cielo y de la Tierra_, MS., p. 7. Ordonez advances various
erudite reasons for believing that Nagualism is a religious belief whose
theory and rites were brought from Carthage by Punic navigators in
ancient times.

[29-Sec.] Maria de Moxo, _Cartas Mejicanas_, p. 270, (Genova, n. d.).

[30-*] "_Xochimilca_, que asi llamavan a los mui sabios encantadores."
Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib. xv, cap. 16.

[30-[+]] In Nahuatl, _tlapiani_, a guardian or watchman. The Zapotec
priesthood was divided into the _huijatoos_, "greater guardians," and
their inferiors, the _copavitoos_, "guardians of the gods." Carriedo,
_Estudios Historicos_,[TN-13] p. 93.

[30-[++]] See Eligio Ancona. _Historia de Yucatan_, Tom. iv, cap. 1
(Merida, 1880).

[31-*] The mention of the fifteen, 5 x 3, chosen disciples indicates
that the same system of initiating by triplets prevailed in Yucatan as
in Chiapas (see above, p. 19). The sacred tree is not named, but
presumably it was the ceiba to which I refer elsewhere. The address of
Jacinto was obtained from those present, and is given at length by the
Jesuit Martin del Puerto, in his _Relacion hecho al Cabildo Eclesiastico
por el preposito de la Compania de Jesus, acerca de la muerte de Jacinto
Can-Ek y socios_, Dec. 26, 1761. It is published, with other documents
relating to this revolt, in the Appendix to the _Diccionario Universal_,
edited by Orozco y Berra, Mexico, 1856. On the prophecies of Chilan
Balam, see my _Essays of an Americanist_, pp. 255-273 (Philadelphia,
1890).

[31-[+]] Eligio Ancona, _Hist. de Yucatan_, Tom. ii, p. 452.

[32-*] See Pedro Sanchez de Aguilar, _Informe contra Idolum Cultores en
Yucathan_ (Madrid, 1639); Eligio Ancona, _Historia de Yucatan_, Tom. ii,
pp. 128, 129.

[32-[+]] The chief authority on this revolt is Juan de Torres Castillo,
_Relacion de lo Sucedido en las Provincias de Nexapa, Iztepex y Villa
Alta_ (Mexico, 1662). See also Cavo, _Los Tres Siglos de Mexico durante
el Gobierno Espanol_, Tom. ii, p. 41, and a pamphlet by Christoval Manso
de Contreras, _Relacion cierta y v