Religions Ancient and Modern
THE MYTHOLOGIES OF
ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU
RELIGIONS: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
ANIMISM.
By Edward Clodd, Author of The Story of Creation.
PANTHEISM.
By James Allanson Picton, Author of The Religion of theUniverse.
THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA.
By Professor Giles, LL.D., Professor of Chinese in the Universityof Cambridge.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE.
By Jane Harrison, Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, Authorof Prolegomena to Study of Greek Religion.
ISLAM.
By Syed Ameer Ali, M.A., C.I.E., late of H.M.'s High Court ofJudicature in Bengal, Author of The Spirit of Islam and TheEthics of Islam.
MAGIC AND FETISHISM.
By Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at CambridgeUniversity.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
By Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S.
THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA.
By Theophilus G. Pinches, late of the British Museum.
BUDDHISM. 2 vols.
By Professor Rhys Davids, LL.D., late Secretary of The RoyalAsiatic Society.
HINDUISM.
By Dr. L. D. Barnett, of the Department of Oriental Printed Booksand MSS., British Museum.
SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION.
By William A. Craigie, Joint Editor of the Oxford EnglishDictionary.
CELTIC RELIGION.
By Professor Anwyl, Professor of Welsh at University College,Aberystwyth.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
By Charles Squire, Author of The Mythology of the BritishIslands.
JUDAISM.
By Israel Abrahams, Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in CambridgeUniversity, Author of Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.
SHINTO. By W. G. Aston, C.M.G.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU.
By Lewis Spence, M.A.
THE RELIGION OF THE HEBREWS.
By Professor Yastrow.
THE MYTHOLOGIES
OF ANCIENT MEXICO
AND PERU
By
LEWIS SPENCE
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO Ltd
1907
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
FOREWORD
It is difficult to understand the neglect into which the study of theMexican and Peruvian mythologies has fallen. A z