Part 47 (1/2)

(24) ”Myths of the New World,” p. 95.

(25) Bancroft's ”Native Races,” Vol. V, p. 506.

(26) See, also, ”American Encyclopedia,” Art. ”Cross.”

(27) ”Conquest of Mexico,” p. 160.

(28) ”Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge,” Vol. XXII.

(29) Bancroft's ”Native Races,” Vol. III, p. 470.

(30) ”Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology,” Vol. I.

(31) Mr. Holden uses, as an important link in his arguments, a figure engraved on a chalchiute (a sacred stone). He concludes it to be a representative of Huitzilopochtli, the G.o.d of war, or rather the Maya representative of the Mexican G.o.d of that name.

It is unfortunate that Prof. Valentine gives to this same figure a different significance. In the ”Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society,” for April, 1884, in a paper on that subject, he concludes it to be a representation of a victorious warrior giving sacrifice to his G.o.d. The only persons ent.i.tled to speak on such subjects are those thoroughly acquainted with Maya Archaeology.

(32) Huitzilopochtli.

(33) Tlaloc.

(34) Bancroft's ”Native Races,” Vol. III, p. 324.

(35) While such seem to us to be the results of Mr. Holden's labors, it must not be understood that he vouches for them.

They must be regarded as personal views which we express with some mental forebodings. In this matter we must abide by further investigations.

(36) Bandelier: ”An Archaeological Tour in Mexico,” p. 184.

(37) Bancroft's ”Native Races,” Vol. IV, p. 345.

(38) See Charney, in _North American Review,_ 1881. They wore formerly in a house.

(39) Bancroft's ”Native Races,” Vol. IV, p. 332.

(40) Brinton's ”Contribution to North American Ethnology,” Vol.

V, p. 36. ”Introduction to Study of Ma.n.u.script Troano,” by Prof.

Thomas.

(41) _North American Review,_ February, 1881, p. 187.

(42) Bancroft's ”Native Races,” p. 287.

(43) ”Central America,” Vol. II, p. 261. At this time Mr.

Stephens had not seen the ruins at Palenque, and those in Yucatan.

(44) p.r.o.nounced ”oosh-mal.”

(45) Our princ.i.p.al authority on the ruin's of Yucatan is Mr.

Stephens, whose work, ”Incidents of Travel in Yucatan,” in two volumes, is all that can be desired. Mr. Bancroft, in ”Native Races,” Vol. IV, has gathered together whatever of worth there is in the writings of various explorers.

(46) Mr. Stephens thinks they were for the support of the arches, while building. As, however, it is almost certain they constructed this arch over a solid cove of masonry, which they afterwards removed (see ”Contributions to N.A. Ethnology,”

Vol. IV, p. 262), they could not have been intended for such use.

(47) The pyramid is three hundred and fifty feet square at the base and nineteen feet high. The terraces are along the south side. The lowest terrace is three feet high and twenty feet wide. The second is twelve feet high and forty-five feet wide.

The third is four feet high and five feet wide. The building on the south side is two hundred and seventy-nine feet long, twenty-eight feet wide, and eighteen feet high. The north one is two hundred and sixty-four feet long, twenty-eight feet wide, and twenty-five feet high. The eastern one, one hundred and fifty-eight feet long, thirty-five feet wide, and twenty-two feet high. The western one, one hundred and seventy-three feet long, thirty-five feet wide, and twenty feet high. (Bancroft's ”Native Races,” Vol. IV, p. 174.) The area of the court is two hundred and fourteen feet by two hundred and fifty-eight feet.

It is about two and a half feet lower than the buildings on the eastern, western, and southern sides. There are seventy-six rooms in the four ranges of buildings, and twelve more in the facings of the terrace of the north building, to be described.

In size the rooms vary from twenty to thirty feet long by from ten to twelve feet wide.

(48) Bancroft: ”Native Races,” Vol. IV, p. 179.

(49) The dimensions of this mound are as follows: Length of base, two hundred and thirty-five feet; width of base, one hundred and five feet; height, eighty-eight feet. Though diminis.h.i.+ng as it rises, it is not exactly pyramidal, but its corners are rounded. It is incased with stone, and is apparently solid from the plain.--Stephens's ”Yucatan,” Vol. I, p. 316.

(50) See ”Proceedings Am. Antiq. Society,” April, 1880, p. 57.

(51) _North American Review,_ 1882.

(52) ”Contributions to North American Ethnology,” Vol. IV, p. 267.

(53) Stephens's ”Yucatan,” Vol. II, p. 164.