Maya and Aztec

CHAPTER III: Myths and Legends of the Ancient Mexicans The Mexican Idea of the Creation “IN the year and in the day of the clouds,” writes Garcia in his Origin de los Indias, professing to furnish the reader with a translation of an original Mixtec picture-manuscript, “before ever were years or days, the world lay […]

[Transcriber’s Note: In this ASCII version, abbreviations have beenexpanded, c-with-cedilla has been replaced with z, and n-with-tilde has been replaced with n~. An English translation is available in Codex Chimalpahin, volume 2, ISBN 0-8061-2950-6.]