The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-16

poca was the sun. it is said that when
he ceased to be the sun, they all per-
ished, and tigers made an end OF them
and ate them up. so that no one re-
NAMED; and these tigers were created
in this fashion; that after thirteen
times fifty-twO years had passed, Quet-
zalCOatl became the sun, and TetZcat-
lipOca ceased TO be il, because he gave
him a blow with a great stick, and
threw him over into the water, and
there he was metamOrphosed into
tiger and issued forth thence to slay
the giants. And this appeared in the
heavens for IL is said that the Ursa
Mayor came down to the water be-
cause he is Tetzcatlipoca, ana was on
high in memory Of him."
supreme Deity.
sun in this relation stands for re-
gent Of the era, so that saying that
TetzcatlipOca was the sun during
certain era means that he was the
supreme deity and ruler during that
period. Now in American mythology
there is q constant struggle going on
FOR this supremacy between TetZeat-
tlipoca and QuetZalcOatl. The latter
is the teacher Of purity and goodness
OF life, the greatest beneractor OF
mankind. The former is the prOtee-
tor OF all evil and wicked praetises,
| immortality, sOrcery. Witchcraft, IN
short of all that leads people down 10
death and destruction. For this reason
we find him metamOrphOsed here into
a tiger or Ocelot, which animal IN ma
tive theology was associated with these
very ideas. In reading, therefore, that
the giants persisted victims to the IL
ger TetZcatHpOca, We understand that
the evil influences referred to before
were at the bottom of their destruc-
ton.
Identically the same ideas may be in
ferred from the term cuiname bad
people" which, as We saw, forms part
of the name the giants were known
/ by. IxtlilxOchitl the TetZcOcan histor-
ian. for instance, calls a certain kind
/ Of Toltecs, destroyed later, on the oc-
easiOn OF the EhecatOnatiuh, cuinamet-
yin. evidently not because he wished
10 say that they were the same people
we are discussing but rather because,
according 10 the POpOl Nuh, the Toll
| tees then living did not think any
more, nor speak 10, their creator. their
master who had made them and caused
I them 10 be born" In other words. like
/ the giants, they had become wicked
/ and thereby drew the wrath of deity
down uDOn their heads. Brasseur de
BOurbourg, discussing in his History
/ OF ths Civilized Nations" the causes
/ that led 20 the downfall Of these same
I TOltecs OF the first TOltec empire, gives
/ as one Of the principal reasons the
perniciOus influence exerted by a GER
/ tain sect OF people called lxcuiname
and whom he describes as follows:
Under these circumstances (refer-
/ ring 10 the factions and the immoral
/ ity that tore the TOltec empire asun-
der) all innovations tending to foment
/ disorder and to clOthe the passions OF
/ man with more attractive forms, fur
| nishing the means of satisfying them
/ with more refined sensuality, could not
/ but find partisans. The sect OF the
/ IXcuiname which arose in TOllan filled
/ these conditions. II had taken the or
/ igin at Cuextlan-a region that at all
| times before the conquest has been no
| tOriOus because OF the extreme moral
/ lily with which people there might ~
/ dulEe all sorts OF pleasurss,-A solemn
| cult was rendered there 10 the symbol
| OF generation which was exhibited IN
/ all the temples and on the public
! squares in mOnstrous shape, surround
ed by figures and statues in the last
/ stages of lascivity-In addition TO that
the Cuexteca were looked upon as CIV
/ en- over 10 magic all OF whose articles
| they knew thoroughly
Further Testimony of Historians.
The same organization that Bras
| serr describes IN his History of the
/ Civilized Nations" we meet with in 9TH
er authors under the name Of nanahual-
| tin 'sOrcerers.' the partlsans OF MANUAL
ism and bitter enemies Of Quetzai-
| cOatl. his people and Institutions. This
| for instance, is the case with Sahagun
who. in his writings. assigns 10 these
1 "sOrcerers" the same role that Bras
| seur does TO the IXcuiname. Like these
| they are made responsible for the driv-
ing out OF QuetZac0atl and the ruin OF
the TOltecs OF the first TOltec empire
! Historical difference between ixcui-
name and nanaualtin there is, therefore
/ none. Judging these two terms by their
linguistic characteristics, the latter re-
| fers more to the magical side OF the
| secret Institutions thus called the
| former more 10 the gross sensualism OF
| which they We're the centers- At times
/ we may suppose they would develop
! more OF the one. at others more Of the
/ other Just as circumstances would per
I NIT.
Having accomplished their great vie
/ tory over the former Toltecs. they