The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . h human sacrifices. We will add a few quotations showinghow great was the analogy between the places consecrated toTlaloc and the Tenenepanco cemetery. * Juarros, Hist, de Guatemala, tome 11. p. 249, 1809. Tenenepanco and Naiiualac Cemeteries. 177 Torquemada calls him the god of paradise and great delights ;that his statue on the highest mountain of Texcuco representeda man seated on a square slab, having at the back a huge stonejar, into which ?////, maize, beans, and other vege
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . h human sacrifices. We will add a few quotations showinghow great was the analogy between the places consecrated toTlaloc and the Tenenepanco cemetery. * Juarros, Hist, de Guatemala, tome 11. p. 249, 1809. Tenenepanco and Naiiualac Cemeteries. 177 Torquemada calls him the god of paradise and great delights ;that his statue on the highest mountain of Texcuco representeda man seated on a square slab, having at the back a huge stonejar, into which ?////, maize, beans, and other vegetables wereplaced by the devotees, and that this offering was renewed everyyear. Ixdilxochitl mentions, inter alia, that five or six youngchildren were yearly sacrificed to this deity, their hearts torn out,and their bodies buried; and we read in Leather Duran thatMontezuma and the allied princes repaired on the hill on whicha child seven or eight years old was sacrificed. This festival wascelebrated in the month of April,when the maizewas above theground. The nextquotation fromTorquemada Is byfar the most in-. VASES OF BURIAL-GROUND UNEARTHED AT teresting, for It mentions Popocatepetl and the surrounding hillswhere we are carrying on our explorations: Indians entertained a great respect for this mountain, whoseclimate was mild, and the abundance of whose waters made theland around unusually fertile, and here children and slaves wereslain In honour of Tlaloc. To the south Is another mighty hill,Teoculnani, the Divine Singer, so called by the natives becausewhenever the clouds shroud its summit the volcano bursts forthin flashes of lightning and claps of thunder, spreading terroramong the whole population, who hasten to the hill to offer men,incense, paper-crowns, feathers, plates, iirns, goblets, cups, toys,and vases (exactly what we have found). Close by was awell-constructed house, Ayaiichcalli, house of rest, in whichstood an idol of green stone, chalchilntitl, ab
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