[155-1] _Hist. des Incas_, liv. ii. cap. 28, and corrected in Markham's _Quichua Grammar_.
[155-2] The latter is a compound of _tici_ or _ticcu_, a vase, and _ylla_, the root of _yllani_, to shine, _yllapantac_, it thunders and lightens. The former is from _tici_ and _cun_ or _con_, whence by reduplication _cun-un-un-an_, it thunders. From _cun_ and _tura_, brother, is probably derived _cuntur_, the condor, the flying thunder-cloud being looked upon as a great bird also. Dr. Waitz has pointed out that the Araucanians call by the title _con_, the messenger who summons their chieftains to a general council.
[156-1] _Le Livre Sacré_, p. 9. The name of the lightning in Quiché is _cak ul ha_, literally, "fire coming from water."
[156-2] Morgan, _League of the Iroquois_, p. 158.
[157-1] "El rayo, el relámpago, y el trueno." Gama, _Des. de las dos Piedras_, etc., ii. p. 76: Mexico, 1832.
[157-2] Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, lib. vi. cap. 23. Gama, ubi sup. ii. 76, 77.
[158-1] Torquemada, ibid., lib. vi. cap. 41.
[158-2] _Senate Report on the Indian Tribes_, p. 358: Washington, 1867.
[158-3] Brasseur, _Hist[TN-7] du Mexique_, i. p. 201, and on the extent of his worship Waitz, _Anthropol._, iv. p. 144.
[158-4] Oviedo, _Hist. du Nicaragua_, p. 47.
Analysis of American culture myths.--The Manibozho or Michabo of the Algonkins shown to be an impersonation of LIGHT, a hero of the Dawn, and their highest deity.--The myths of Ioskeha of the Iroquois, Viracocha of the Peruvians, and Quetzalcoatl of the Toltecs essentially the same as that of Michabo.--Other examples.--Ante-Columbian prophecies of the advent of a white race from the east as conquerors.--Rise of later culture myths under similar forms.
The philosopher Machiavelli, commenting on the books of Livy, lays it down as a general truth that every form and reform has been brought about by a single individual. Since a remorseless criticism has shorn so many heroes of their laurels, our faith in the maxim of the great Florentine wavers, and the suspicion is created that the popular fancy which personifies under one figure every social revolution is an illusion. It springs from that tendency to hero worship, ineradicable in the heart of the race, which leads every nation to have an ideal, the imagined author of its prosperity, the father of his country, and the focus of its legends. As has been hinted, history is not friendly to their renown, and dissipates them altogether into phantoms of the brain, or sadly dims the lustre of their fame. Arthur, bright star of chivalry, dwindles into a Welsh subaltern; the Cid Campeador, defender of the faith, sells his sword as often to Moslem as to Christian, and _sells_ it ever; while Siegfried and Feridun vanish into nothings.