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Xiii.: Landa Cuz Luumil Luumil
Xiii.: Landa Cuz Luumil Luumil
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On the name of this country see: Landa, Relation, and Brasseur, in
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Yuc., pp. 178, 192, 196-7 ; Landa, Relation, pp. 328-30; Lizana, in Id., p. 356;
Brasseur, Hist., torn, i., pp. 78-80 ; Waldeck, Voy. Pitt., p. 23 ; Malte-Brun,
Yucatan, pp. 15-17.
THE ITZAOB AT CHICKEN. 619
Torquemada, torn, ii., p. 52, torn, in., p. 133; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp.
190, 196-7; Landa, Relation, pp. 34-9, 340-2; Brasseur, Hist., torn, ii., pp.
10-13; Malte-Brun, Yucatan, pp. 15-16; Stephens Yucatan, vol. i., pp.
140-1.
CUKULCAN AND THE COCOMES. 621
13
Landa-Relacion, pp. 44-8. Le nom des Tutul-Xiu parait d origine
nahuatl; il serait derive de totol, tototl, oiseau, et de xiuitl, ou xihuitl,
herbe, etc. En ceci il n y aura it rien d extraordinaire, puisqu ils sor-
taient de Tula on
Tulapan, cite qui aurait ete la capitale des Nahuas ou
Tolteques apres leur victoire sur Xibalba. Brasseur, in Id., p. 47. See
also Herrera, dec. iv., lib. x., cap. ii., iii.
; Torquemada, torn, iii., p. 132;
Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 178, 182; Morelet, Voyage, torn, i., p. 271;
Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., vol. i., p. 171; Ternaux-Com-
pans, in Nouvelles Annales, torn, xcvii., pp. 34-5
14 This Additional study of the subject has caused
volume, pp. 227-8.
me to modify considerably in this chapter some of the statements on Maya
history contained in vol. ii., pp. 118-20.
624 NATIONS OF YUCATAN.
of these dates agrees very well with the facts, since Cordova reached the
coast of Yucatan in 1517, and Geronimo de Aguilar was wrecked there,
probably some years earlier. But Perez dates their arrival between 1392
and 1488, before America was discovered !
32 Perez
directly contradicts the text in placing this death in 1493.
630 NATIONS OF YUCATAN.