trical figures used by Phoenicians, 536, _note_.
Wu, Chinese empress, 309.
Wylie, Alexander, 303, 335, 481, _note_.
Xicalango, 211.
Xilomaniztli, another name for the festival "Izcalli;"
meaning the birth or sprouting of the young maize, 241.
Xiuhtecuhtli, Mexican lord of the year or of fire;
emblem of, figured and described;
called the turquoise;
or grass-green pyramid, 129, 214, 223.
Xius, tribe of ancient Yucatan, 211.
Xonecuilli, native name for Ursa Minor (see Ursa Minor).
Xoxouhqui-ilhuicatl (Nahuatl)=the verdant or blue sky, a title of
Huitzilo-pochtli, 72.
Yang and Yin, in Chinese religion;
belief of the modern Chinese concerning, 286.
Yaou, Chinese emperor who divided China into four provinces, 298.
Year symbols, in Mexican calendar, acatl, tecpatl, calli and tochtli, 76;
glyphs on Copan stela or katun, 220;
Maya name for=Ah-cuch-haab, 220;
in Mexican Calendar-stone, 253;
in Mexico, bunch of grass or maize shoots;
in China, stalk of wheat, 291.
Yoalticitl, mother of the gods in ancient Mexico, 123.
Yop-at, Maya name for "a mitre," symbol of divine ruler, 118.
Yope or yopi, Mexican peaked headdress or cone 117.
Yopico, name given to temple and monastery in courtyard of Great Temple of
Mexico, 118.
Youal-tecuhtli, star-god mentioned by Sahagun, identified as Ursa Major,
279;
name signifies, "lord of the night," also "Lord of the circle or wheel,"
279.
Yuoalahua=lord of the wheel, 71.
Yu, Chinese emperor;
divisions of China, 292, 299.
Yucatan, cult of Polaris, 44;
Mexican culture-hero, Quetzalcoatl, came from, 67;
social organization, older than that of Mexico, 67;
Twin-brothers personifying the Above and Below, 68;
serpent symbol, more ancient than in Mexico, 70;
ancient map of, 85-90;
early peoples of, in contact with those of Mississippi valley, 112;
traditions about Kukulcan's journey to Mexico, 206;
traditions of tribes who came from the south, 210-214;
meeting ground of Maya- and Nahuatl-speaking people, 214;
not cradle of Maya civilization, 214;
ancient monuments of, 216;
fourfold divisions, 218, 494;
Mayas compared with Maghas of India, 509, 519;
ancient civilization, 528;
ruder forms of culture alongside of the perfected social organization,
531;
period of warfare and pestilence, 539
(see Chichen Itza, Mayapan, etc.).
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