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PART 2

THE OUTRAGE

“This will be your indispensable food, this you will live by, so that you proceed striking terror. The payment for your breast and heart will be your conquests, your overrunning and destroying the common people, the dwellers in all the places you reach, and when you take captives you will cut open their chests with a flint on the sacrificial stone and you will offer their hearts to the Brilliant Movement in the sky. As soon as the heart, rich with blood, is thrust out, you will offer it in the direction of Huitzlampa, the Thorn Place, as a sacrificial object, and the blood too, and the bloodiness. And when you have done this, I shall be there. Towards Tlaloc also, and then to all my friends, those gods known to you. And you shall eat the flesh unsalted. You may add to it only a little cooked maize, so that it might be eaten.”

~Huitzilopochtli’s instructions to the Mexica from Nahua texts. Cristobal de Castillo, Historia*