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stern horizon=the house, 38;
one of the four-year symbols, 76;
meaning, the house, 253.
Campina de Puebla, 275.
Can, Maya word for serpent, 38;
serpent and numeral four, 50, 110, 112;
affix in names of towns, Iroquois, Maya and Mexican, 198;
associated with pyramid as Teotihua-Can, 263;
in Chinese and Maya associated with fourfold division, 288.
Canaan, account of Hebrew religion, 350.
Canada, Iroquois town, 197;
Maya meaning of, 198.
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, 440.
Capital, Maya word for, homonymous with five=ho, 256.
Caracol, or Round Temple, of Chichen-Itza, built by Quetzalcoatl,
representing Middle and Four Quarters, and centre of dominion,
97.
Cardinal points, assignment of colors and parts of human body, 293, 294;
associated with form of quadruped among the Zuni, 295
(see Four Quarters).
Carillo, Crescencio, 85, 86.
Carthaginians, having knowledge of an island in the ocean, 540.
Cartier, 197.
Cary's translation of Herodotus, 437.
Caryatids, at Chichen-Itza, 212.
Cassiopeia, 22, 25, 26, 29, 40, 49.
Caste, in Peru, 143;
in Mexico, 273.
Castelnau, 150.
Cat, sacred symbol in Egypt, 408.
Catari, chronicler of the Incas, 151.
Celi-Ced, the dual power, from which the universe was born (Druidic), 471.
Centipede, Mexican symbol, 186.
Central America, fundamental basis of government and civilization, 15;
symbolical form in architecture, 113, 119;
carved stone seats or altars, 283
(see Copan, Guatemala, etc.).
Centre (stable centre or middle), in ancient government, religion, and
symbolism: Polaris, the centre of axial energy, 22, 30;
centre of the Cosmos, among Zunis, Mayas, Mexicans and Peruvians, 41;
symbols of, 46;
on shell gorgets, 49;
divergence from idea, 52;
represented by recumbent stone figure, 96;
among Incas, 136, 142, 144;
and Four Quarters represented on carved slab from Santa Lucia, 172;
in ancient American game, 178;
in Fejervary Codex, 178;
in social organization, 180;
on sculpture of Lord of Above, 186;
colors associated with, 192;
among the Zuni, 202;
in Copan Swastika, 222, 224, 225;
on Tablet of the Cross at Palenque, 236, 243;
union with Four Quarters in Mexican calendar-stone, 250, 258;
on Mexican monolith "Divine Twin," 260, 262, 264;
symbolized by pyramid, 273, 274;
words and symbols connected with, 277;
associated with swastika
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