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Author: * Totonqui Balam -
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Date: Jun 19, 2004 - 11:55
As the night is soon coming the priests get their sharpy obsidian knives for the sacrifices,the victims are taken,some are voluntaries that are promised to be partakers of the paradise of the gods,not all the volunteers were accepted,the prisioners of war are taken by the force and their mouths covered with ropes,and the drums play and the holly masacre starts the volunteers had been given some peyote potion to make them sleep,and several hearts are plucked off the chests of the victims and offered to the statue of Hutchilopostli.
And the night comes,since it is a very cloudy night the moon cannot be seen,and the Macehualis enter in fear as they think the god might deprive them from the sunlight forever and sink the Earth in the everlasting darkness,the priests,the soldiers and the Noble Pochtecs were more faithfull,the sacrifices had been done and the god ought to accomplish his part of the deal,the Aztec century lasted 52 years and after this time the new fire shall be renewed,everyone was comanded to kneel and spent the night praying,at the proper hour the drums and flutes started to play again and several huge bondfires were set in the sacred places,then the silence,all the gazes looking at the East praying for the New Sun that would give them light fir another 52 years.
As the first light of the New Sun is behold on the horizon the yells of joy can be heard in all Tenochtitlan the city is a fest the fastting ends giving room to a fest of fruits,beans and neutle (kind of beer of fermented corn) for the lower classes an
chicken and turquey for the upper ones.
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