At the sacred dances, which were also dramatizations of her supposed action, these attendants were represented by four priests clad respectively in white, yellow, red and black, to represent the four colors of the clouds.[1] In other words, she doubtless bore the same relation to Curicaberis that Ixchel did to Itzamna in the mythology of the Mayas, or the rainbow goddess to Arama in the religious legends of the Moxos.[2] She was the divinity that presided over the rains, and hence over fertility and the harvests, standing in intimate relation to the god of the sun's rays and the four winds.
[Footnote 1: _Relacion de las Ceremonias y Ritos, etc., de Mechoacan_, in the _Coleccion de Documentos para la Historia de Espana_, vol.liii, pp.
13, 19, 20.

This account is anonymous, but was written in the sixteenth century, by some one familiar with the subject.

A handsome MS.

of it, with colored illustrations (these of no great value, however), is in the Library of Congress, obtained from the collection of the late Col.

Peter Force.] [Footnote 2: See above, chapter iv, Sec.1] The Kiches of Guatemala were not distant relatives of the Mayas of Yucatan, and their mythology has been preserved to us in a rescript of their national book, the _Popol Vuh_.