Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
There is now no question as to the indigenous origin of the civilisations of Mexico, Central America, and Peru. Upon few subjects, however, has so much mistaken erudition been lavished. The beginnings of the races who inhabited these regions, and the cultures which they severa...
There is now no question as to the indigenous origin of the civilisations of Mexico, Central America, and Peru. Upon few subjects, however, has so much mistaken erudition been l...
2. CHAPTER II: MEXICAN MYTHOLOGYThe religion of the ancient Mexicans was a polytheism or worship of a pantheon of deities, the general aspect of which presented similarities to the systems of Greece and Egypt....
3. CHAPTER III: MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE ANCIENT MEXICANS"In the year and in the day of the clouds," writes Garcia in his Origin de los Indias, professing to furnish the reader with a translation of an original Mixtec picture-manuscri...
4. CHAPTER IV: THE MAYA RACE AND MYTHOLOGYIt was to the Maya--the people who occupied the territory between the isthmus of Tehuantepec and Nicaragua--that the civilisation of Central America owed most. The language they...
5. CHAPTER V: MYTHS OF THE MAYAOur knowledge of the mythology of the Maya is by no means so full and comprehensive as in the case of Mexican mythology. Traditions are few and obscure, and the hieroglyphic mat...
6. CHAPTER VI: THE CIVILISATION OF OLD PERUIf the civilisation of ancient Peru did not achieve the standard of general culture reached by the Mexicans and Maya, it did not fall far short of the attainment of these people...
7. CHAPTER VII: THE MYTHOLOGY OF PERUThe religion of the ancient Peruvians had obviously developed in a much shorter time than that of the Mexicans. The more ancient character inherent in it was displayed in the pr...