Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ 1 Ocelotl, that is, as we reckon it, IGO days later, about the end oithe year 1521) sent him and four other influential Mexicans prisonersto Coyouacan and strove to extort from them by torture informationas to where were hidden the treasures which the Spaniards had to. q r H t u Fig. 37. Mexican symbols of persons and places. leave behind in Mexico the year previous at the time of their was afterward baptized and named for his godfatherDon Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoctzin. Cortes appointedhim gobe
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ 1 Ocelotl, that is, as we reckon it, IGO days later, about the end oithe year 1521) sent him and four other influential Mexicans prisonersto Coyouacan and strove to extort from them by torture informationas to where were hidden the treasures which the Spaniards had to. q r H t u Fig. 37. Mexican symbols of persons and places. leave behind in Mexico the year previous at the time of their was afterward baptized and named for his godfatherDon Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoctzin. Cortes appointedhim gobernador of Mexico, but afterward had him hanged on sus-picion of conspiracy, together with Tetlepanquetzatzin and Couana-cochtzin, the kings of Tlacopan and Tetzcoco. This happened in theyear 1524 at Ueimollan during the expedition to Honduras. Hedied in some sort like a Christian (ye yuhqui ye christianoyoticamomiquilli), says Chimalpahin. A cross was put into his hand, his 160 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 feet were bound together with iron chains, and by these they hunghim to a ceiba tree. The execution is represented on page 138 ofCodex Vaticanus A; but there he is represented as hanged by theneck in the usual way. From Chimalpahins words, however, itwould seem as though he had been cruell}^ hung up by the feet. The hierogly
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