Ason I think M. Wiener's attempt to make of Con (or _Qquonn_, as

[Buszak Spurling]

Ootnote 1: The names Cipactli and Cipactonal have not been
satisfactorily analyzed. The derivation offered by Senor Chavero
(_Anales del Museo Nacional_, Tom. ii, p.116), is merely fanciful;
_tonal_ is no doubt from _tona_, to shine, to warn; and I think
_cipactli_ is a softened form with the personal ending from _chipauac_,
something beautiful or clear. Hence the meaning of the compound is The
Beautiful Shining One. Oxomuco, which Chavero derives from _xomitl_,
foot, is perhaps the same as _Xmukane_, the mother of the human race,
according to the _Popol Vuh_, a name which, I have elsewhere shown,
appears to be from a Maya root, meaning to conceal or bury in the
ground. The hint is of the fertilizing action of the warm light on the
seed hidden in the soil. See _The Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths,
Trans. of the Amer. Phil. Soc._ 1881.] Now began the struggle between
the two brothers, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl, which was destined to
destroy time after time the world, with all its inhabitants, and to
plunge even the heavenly luminaries into a common ruin. The half sun
created by Quetzalcoatl lighted the world but poorly, and the four gods
came together to consult about adding another half to it. Not waiting
for their decision, Tezcatlipoca transformed himself into a sun,
whereupon the other gods filled the world with great giants, who could
tear up trees with their hands. When an epoch of thirteen times
fifty-two years had passed, Quetzalcoatl seized a great stick, and with
a blow of it knocked Tezcatlipoca from the sky in
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