The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . the city whereshe was sacrificed, her skin being taken ofT after death to clothethe young priest who was to represent the deity in this cruelty was carried so far as to invite the father to bepresent at the bitter mockery of his childs deification ; he came,penetrated the sanctuary, but at first the gloom of the templedid not let him see anything, until he was given a copal-gumtorch, the fiame of which bursting up suddenly revealed thehorrible picture of the young p
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . the city whereshe was sacrificed, her skin being taken ofT after death to clothethe young priest who was to represent the deity in this cruelty was carried so far as to invite the father to bepresent at the bitter mockery of his childs deification ; he came,penetrated the sanctuary, but at first the gloom of the templedid not let him see anything, until he was given a copal-gumtorch, the fiame of which bursting up suddenly revealed thehorrible picture of the young priest standing close to the idoland receiving the homage of the multitude. The skin fitted 44 The Ancient Cities of the New World. so tightly that the monarch recognised his daughters mask, andalmost mad with grief he fled the temple to mourn for hismurdered child. The Mexican valley was occupied successively by various tribes,which advancing from the north and north-west, entered the countrytowards the end of the seventh century. The first and mostremarkable of these, both from the mildness of their character. CHAPULTEPEC. and the degree of their civilisation, were the Toltecs, who occu-pied Chapultepec as early eis the eighth century, and establishedtheir capital at Tula, north of the Mexican valley, whose nameToltcc was synonymous with architect. After a time, a rude tribe,the Ckichcmecs, entered the territory and were soon followed byother races, amongst which were the Aztecs or Mexicans, andthe Acolhuans or Tczciuans. .Some of these obtained leave from Clavigero, Historia Antigua, vol. i. p. 75. R;imiicz, chap. iv. p. 120. Tin: Indians. 45 liillTit piWilllll1MlMIWIiiyMilllMlllillliilfiBm|iii,^«!111 .11i]v
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