114, et seq., who discusses the former; Dr.Paul Felix Cabrera, _Teatro Critico Americano_, translated, London, 1822; Brasseur de Bourbourg, _Hist.

des Nations Civilisees de Mexique_, vol.i, chap, ii, who gives some additional points from Ordonez; and H.de Charencey, _Le Mythe de Votan; Etude sur les Origines Asiatiques de la Civilization Americaine_.

(Alencon, 1871).] He was worshiped by the Tzendals as their principal deity and their beneficent patron.

But he had a rival in their religious observances, the feared _Yalahau_ Lord of Blackness, or Lord of the Waters.

He was represented as a terrible warrior, cruel to the people, and one of the first of men.[1] [Footnote 1: _Yalahau_ is referred to by Bishop Nunez de la Vega as venerated in Occhuc and other Tzendal towns of Chiapas.