The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . he new fire, which waseffected by the friction of two sticks placed on the breast ofthe victim. The fire was soon communicated to a funeral pile,on which the body of the victim was placed and ceremony always took place at midnight, and as the lightmounted up towards heaven shouts of joy burst forth from themultitudes who covered the hills, the house-tops, and terraces ofthe temples, their eyes directed towards the mountain of , with torches lighted
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . he new fire, which waseffected by the friction of two sticks placed on the breast ofthe victim. The fire was soon communicated to a funeral pile,on which the body of the victim was placed and ceremony always took place at midnight, and as the lightmounted up towards heaven shouts of joy burst forth from themultitudes who covered the hills, the house-tops, and terraces ofthe temples, their eyes directed towards the mountain of , with torches lighted at the blazing fire, rapidly bore themto the inhabitants of the surrounding districts, whilst every part of 92 The Ancient Cities of the New World. the citv was Horhted with bonfires. The followinor davs weregiven up to festivity, the houses were cleansed and whitewashed,the broken vessels were replaced by new ones, and the peopledressed in their gayest apparel. It we except human sacrifice, this must have been a Toltec ceremonv.* * Sahagun. H:s:oria de las Cosas ce la Nueva Espana, lib. vii. cap. x. to CAPITAL, FOUND AT 11 LA.
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