[Footnote 1: Gerónimo de Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana.

[Footnote 1: Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Lib. ii, cap. xvi.]

[Footnote 1: Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Lib. ii, cap.

[Footnote 1: Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Lib. ii, cap. xxxiii.]

Mendieta says: "El dios ó idolo de Cholula, llamado Quetzalcoatl, fué el mas celebrado y tenido por mejor y mas digno sobre los otro dioses, segun la reputacion de todos.

[Footnote 1: For this version of the myth, see Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Lib. ii, caps, v and x.]

[Footnote 1: Mendieta, Hist.

[Footnote 2: Mendieta, Hist.

When the Spanish ships for the first time reached the Mexican shores the natives kissed their sides and hailed the white and bearded strangers from the east as gods, sons and brothers of Quetzalcoatl, come back from their celestial home to claim their own on earth and bring again the days of Paradise; a hope, dryly observes Father Mendieta, which the poor Indians soon gave up when they came to feel the acts of their visitors.

Mendieta calls it a "contra-bass," and states that persons gifted with such a voice cultivated it assiduously and were in great demand.

I, p. 233; and compare Geronimo de Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Lib. II, cap.

"] [Footnote 26: The most satisfactory description of these concerts is that given by Geronimo de Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana,