[I-88] _Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales_, tom. i., lettre xviii. Cited by _Warden_, _Recherches_, p. 121.
[I-90] _Hist. of Louisiana_, London 1774.
[I-91] Speaking of the ruins of Central America, Stephens says: 'if their (the Chinese) ancient architecture is the same with their modern, it bears no resemblance whatever to these unknown ruins.' _Cent. Amer._, vol. ii., p. 438.
[I-92] _Humboldt_, _Vues_, tom. i., p. 236. Speaking of the Popol Vuh, Viollet-le-Duc says: 'Certains passages de ce livre ont avec les histoires héroïques de l'Inde une singulière analogie.' In _Charnay_, _Ruines Amér._, p. 40. See also, _Brasseur de Bourbourg_, _Quatre Lettres_, pp. 212-13, 236-42.
[I-93] _Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi_, tom. i., p. 426. Quoted in _Humboldt_, _Vues_, tom. i., p. 256.
[I-94] _Vues_, tom. i., p. 257. Tschudi, again, writes: 'As among the East Indians, an undefined being, Bramah, the divinity in general, was shadowed forth in the Trimurti, or as a God under three forms, viz., _Bramah_, _Vishnu_, and _Sciva_; so also the Supreme Being was venerated among the Indians of Mexico, under the three forms of _Ho_, _Huitzilopoctli_, and _Tlaloc_, who formed the Mexican Trimurti. The attributes and worship of the Mexican goddess Mictanihuatl preserve the most perfect analogy with those of the sanguinary and implacable Kali; as do equally the legends of the Mexican divinity Teayamiqui with the formidable Bhavani; both these Indian deities were wives of Siva-Rudra. Not less surprising is the characteristic likeness which exists between the pagodas of India and the Teocallis of Mexico, while the idols of both temples offer a similitude in physiognomy and posture which cannot escape the observation of any one who has been in both countries. The same analogy is observed between the oriental Trimurti and that of Peru; thus Con corresponds to Bramah, Pachacamac to Vishnu, and Huiracocha to Siva. The Peruvians never dared to erect a temple to their ineffable God, whom they never confounded with other divinities; a remarkable circumstance, which reminds us of similar conduct among a part of the inhabitants of India as to Bramah, who is the Eternal, the abstract God. Equally will the study of worship in the two hemispheres show intimate connection between the existence and attributes of the _devadasis_ (female servants of the Gods) and the Peruvian virgins of the Sun.