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American Hero-Myths

CHAPTER IV
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As it is, the references to it are not many, and not clear.
[Footnote 1: The feasts of the Bacabs Acantun are described in Landa's work.

The name he does not explain.

I take it to be _acaan_, past participle of _actal_, to erect, and _tun_, stone.

But it may have another meaning.

The word _acan_ meant wine, or rather, mead, the intoxicating hydromel the natives manufactured.


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