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INDEX AND GLOSSARY

Nonohualco. Place in Mexico; Tutul Xins may have come from, 153

Norsemen. Voyages of the, to America, 5

Nunnery. The ruin at Chichen-Itza, 189-190


O

Obsequies. In Peru; a description of, 316-317

Ocosingo. Ruined Maya city, 149

Ollanta. Inca chieftain; in the drama. Apu-Ollanta, 251-253

Ollantay-Tampu. Prehistoric ruins at, 250-251; Apu-Ollanta, the drama legend of, 251-253

Omacatl (Two Reeds). Mexican god of festivity, 11 2-1 13

Omeciuatl. Mexican mother god of the human species, associated with Ometecutli, 103-104, 118; Xmucane the Kiche equivalent of, 236

Ometecutli (Two-Lord). Father god of the human species, associated with Omeciuatl, 103-104, 118; Xpiyacoc the Kiche equivalent of, 236

Ometochtli. I. A pulque-god, 104. II. A day in the Mexican calendar, 105

Opochtli (The Left-handed). Mexican god of fishers and bird-catchers, 113-114

Oracles in Peru, 296-297; a legend connected with an oracle, 302-303

Otomi. Aboriginal Mexican race, 23, 25, 50

Owen, Guttyn. Mentioned, 6

Oxford Codex, 37


P

Paapiti. Island on Lake Titicaca; Huaina Ccapac and the lake-goddess and, 299

Pacari Tampu (House of the Dawn). Place of origin of four brothers and sisters who initiated the systems of worship and civilised Peru, 305, 307

Pacaw. a sorcerer mentioned in Popol Vuh myth, 227

Paccariscas. Holy places of origin of the Peruvian tribes, 292, 293, 305

Pachacamac. I. The supreme divinity of the Incas, known also as Pacharurac, 257, 303-304; not a primitive conception, 257; in the local creation-myth of Irma, 258-259; the Ccapac Raymi the national festival of, 267; Yatiri the Aymara name for, 299; symbol of, in the Coricancha, 304; regarded as son of the sun, 306; daughters of, in the Coniraya myth, 323. II. Sacred city of the Incas, 310; ruins of, 273; in the Coniraya myth, 322

Pachacamama (Earth-Mother). Name given by the Incas to their conception of the earth, 257

Pachacta unanchac. Inca device for determining the solstices, 265-266

Pachacutic (or Yupanqui Pachacutic) (He who changes the World). Ninth Inca; in the drama Apu-Ollanta, 251-252; defeats Hastu-huaraca, 282, 284-285; formerly known as Yupanqui, 285; his extensive dominion, 286; his achievements as ruler, 286-287; a man like the Mexican Nezahualcoyotl, 291; and the legend of the stones that turned into warriors, 294; and the thunder-god, 300; and the conception of the creator, 304; introduces sun-worship, 308; the vision of, 317-318

Pachamama (or Mamapacha) (Earth-Mother). The Peruvian earth-goddess, 303

Pacharurac. A name of Pachacamac, which see

Pachayachachic. a form of Pachacamac, regarded as direct ruler of the universe, 299, 304 Viracocha called, 307

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