The Spaniards call the chief priest Vilaorna, instead of Villac Vmu, a word composed of the verb Villani (I say) and of the noun Vmu, which means a divine or soothsayer. Villac, with the letter c, is the present participle, and, added to the word Vmu, the meaning is the “diviner or soothsayer who speaks.” It does not explain what it is that he says, but it is understood that he says to the people what he has been directed, as chief priest, to proclaim as a command of the Sun, in accordance with their fables, and what the devils declared to him through their idols and sanctuaries. He also proclaimed what he himself, as chief priest, divined from the omens and sacrifices, and by interpreting dreams, and by other superstitions which they had in the time of their heathenry. They had no name for priest, but they composed a word from the same things that are done by priests.

Of the five images the Spaniards secured three, which still remained in their ancient positions. They only lost the benches of gold and silver, and the images of the moon and stars, which had been pulled out of the ground. Against the walls of these temples, looking towards the cloister, on the outside, there were four porches of masonry, a material of which every other part of these edifices was also built. The mouldings round the corners, and along all the inner parts of the porches, were inlaid with plates of gold, as well as the walls and even the floors.