Quiché, Supreme Divinity of, 71, note;

Sacred book of, 72, note;

totems, 164, note;

numerical and social system, illustrated by tradition, 182;

compared with Zuñi, 182;

“Lord of the Mountain” title, 211;

affix in name, ché, Maya word for tree, 235;

used day and year signs as personal and tribal names, 253;

traditions of destruction of earth, 270.

Quilaztli, sister of Huitzilopochtli, myth concerning, 60;

the mother of all, same as Cihuacoatl, 61, 67;

compared with Egyptian queen, 428.

Quirigua, sister city to Copan, 210;

ancient monuments, 215, 216, 218, 223, 229;

social organization same as that of Copan, 230, 231, 232;

totemic animals and symbolic colors, 233;

“Great Turtle,” 234, 240, 296, note;

stelæ as memorial stones of high priest rulers, 512;

remnants of old civilization, 528.

Ra, Egyptian word for God, 409.

Rabbit (tochtli), 78;

Mexican calendar sign;

symbol of earth and reproduction, used to represent sound of word, octli, 78;

figure of, indicates sacred octli or earth-wine, 103;

in Nahuatl picture writing, 125;

the rebus for earth-wine or rain, 506.

Rabinal, 172.

Rain, Tlaloc, god of, 78, 81;

figured with scrolls about the eyes, 95;

symbols, 96;

lords, four hundred in number, sacred vase, emblem of, 102;

Zuñi rain-makers, 132;

rites practised on summits of pyramids, 283;

ancient festival described in the Brahmanas, 496, 497;

symbolized by rabbit, 506.

Rattlesnakes, on monolith “Divine Twin,” 261.

Raven, or summer people among the Zuñi, 201.

Rawnsley, 491.

Rays, carved on Calendar stone the idea of, 255.

Read, C. H., 166.

Recumbent stone statues, 93-96, 185, 214.

Recurved staff or sceptre, 34.

Red land, in name of Mexican city Tlapallan, and of Chichen (Itza), 68;

“the great ancient red land” in the East, 525.

Red man, origin of title, 193;

title of the Phœnicians, 521;

in Genesis, 523;

Chichimecs of Mexico (literally, Red race), 532.

Rig-Veda, 494, 496, 497, 499, 500, 505, 521, 522.

Riksmuseum of Stockholm, 48.

Ring or circle, in Persia, 326

(see Circle or ring).

Rio Lagartos, 217.

Rios, Padre, 11, 268, 270.

Rivero, 134;

and Tschudi, 150.

Roman, 150.

Roman Catholic Church, 537.

Roman Milliarum Aureum, 513.

Rome, sacred fire, Roma Quadrata, 461;

duality, middle, quadruple government, 463;

numerical divisions, 464;

seven-storied tower, 464;

seven-day period, 465, 466, 467;

summary, in table of countries, 493;

Constantine's plan of state-organization in New Rome identical with the numerical scheme of the Maya and Mexican calendars, 509;

the symbolical use of the column, 513;

amulet, 514;

church built by Constantine in form of Greek Cross, 514.

Rosa, Beltran de la, 181.

Rosny, Leon de, 36.

Rotation

(see Axial rotation).

Round form, associated with cult of Heaven or the Above in Mexico, Central America;

among Zuñis, 113-115;

in ancient architecture, 115;

associated with sky in Egypt, 371.

Round Temples of Chichen Itza and Mexico, symbolism of, 97.

Royal Ethnographical Museum of Dresden, 129, 155.

Rust, Horatio N., 104.

Sabæan star-worship, 322.

Sabbath, derivation of name, etc., 327.

Sacrifice, human, sacred rite, in Mexico, 63;

symbolism of, in Aztec religion, 66, 77;

human victim formed living swastika, 91, 92;

human blood used to moisten sacred dough, 98;

origin of blood sacrifices, 98;

to Heaven and to Earth, 118;

in Peru, 147, 148, 151;

in Mexico, taking out heart of captive signified destroying life of conquered tribe, 263;

in China, 296;

Egyptian compared with Mexican, 442, 443.

Sacrificial-stone of Mexico=Tribute-stone, or law-stone recording collection of tributes, etc., 258, 259.

Sahagun, Friar Bernardino de, 8, 11, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 47, 53, 56, 61, 66, 70, 72, 73, 75, 77-83, 104, 118, 123, 127, 128, 150, 159, 173, 175, 176, 189, 192, 245, 259, 261, 279, 507, 553, 555.

St. Augustine, 536.

Sakkarah, Egyptian seven-storied pyramid, 381.

Salado, 200.

Salcamayhua, 132, 146, 148, 151, 161, 170, 186.

Salcamayhua tablet, 510, note.

Sanchez, Jesus, 44, 93, 95, 96, 157, note.

San Fun, ancient Chinese work, 291.

Saniah-ya-kwe: priesthood of the Hunt, among the Zuñis, 201.

San Salvador, mushroom-shaped stone figures from, 114.

Santa Lucia Cozumalhuapa, sculptured slabs at, 153, 154, 163, 172.

Sapper, Carl, 114, 173.

Satow and Hawes' Handbook of Japan, 570.

Saville, M. H., 513.

Saxo Grammaticus, 472.

Sayce, A. H., 324, 327, 347, 348, 349, 425, 449, 481, 491, 518, 519, 520, 521, 524, 525, 527, 532, 540, 572.

Scandinavia, triskelion associated with swastika, 28, 29;

Greek fret, 121;

numerical divisions;

middle;

Four Quarters;

Ursa Major called “Thor's Wagon;”

sacred mountain and tree;

axial rotation;

cult of Polaris;

duality;

flora and fauna, 471-479;

summary, in table of countries, 493;

use of wheel in early times, also mill stone, 502, 503.