Essays of an Americanist

part in the cosmogonical myths of Californian, Mexican and Central

American tribes. It appears generally to represent the night, and I would render the esoteric sense of the two names by “Master of the Night,” and “Master of the Approaching Dawn.”

The same concealed sense seems to lurk in the next name, _Zaki-nima-tzyiz_, literally, “The Great White Pisote,” the pisote being t...