CHAPTER IX.

GODS, SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, AND WORSHIP.

The Mother or all-nourishing Goddess under various names and in various aspects -- Her Feast in the Eleventh Aztec month Ochpaniztli -- Festivals of the Eighth month, Hueytecuilhuitl, and of the Fourth, Hueytozoztli -- The deification of women that died in child-birth -- The Goddess of Water under various Names and in various aspects -- Ceremonies of the Baptism or Lustration of children -- The Goddess of Love, her various names and aspects -- Rites of confession and absolution -- The God of fire and his various names -- His festivals in the tenth month Xocotlveti and in the eighteenth month Yzcali; also his quadriennial festival in the latter month -- The great festival of every fifty-two years; lighting the new fire -- The God of Hades, and Teoyaomique, collector of the souls of the fallen brave -- Deification of dead rulers and heroes -- Mixcoatl, God of hunting, and his feast in the fourteenth month, Quecholli -- Various other Mexican deities -- Festival in the second month, Tlacaxipehualiztli, with notice of the gladiatorial sacrifices -- Complete Synopsis of the festivals of the Mexican Calendar, fixed and movable -- Temples and Priests 349