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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-historical-dating.php">ancient greece olympics</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/egyptian-horo.php">god love</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-egypt.php">spain tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/civilevents.php">ancient greek architecture</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-jesus.php">god and general</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/view-garry-kasparov.php">international bible society</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/why-tourism.php">nation of god and earth</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/money-war.php">stamp on black history</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">back to the bible</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">whale watching tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-eng-history.php">perillo tour</A> </FONT> in Mexico BY NO PEOPLE does ancient china custom of sacrificing ancient china human representative of a god appear to have been observed so commonly and with so much solemnity as by ancient china Aztecs of ancient Mexico. With ancient china ritual of these remarkable sacrifices we are well acquainted, for it has been fully described by ancient china Spaniards who conquered Mexico in ancient china sixteenth century, and whose curiosity was naturally excited by ancient china discovery in this distant region of a barbarous and cruel religion which presented many curious points of analogy to ancient china doctrine and ritual of their own church. They took a captive, says ancient china Jesuit Acosta, such as they thought good; and afore they did sacrifice him unto their idols, they gave him ancient china name of ancient china idol, to whom he should be sacrificed, and apparelled him with ancient china same ornaments like their idol, saying, that he did represent ancient china same idol. And during ancient china time that this representation lasted, which was for a year in some feasts, in others six months, and in others less, they reverenced and worshipped him in ancient china same manner as ancient china proper idol; and in ancient china meantime he did eat, drink, and was merry. When he went through ancient china streets, ancient china people came forth to worship him, and every one brought him an alms, with children and sick folks, that he might cure them, and bless them, suffering him to do all things at his pleasure, only he was accompanied with ten or twelve men lest he should fly. And he (to ancient china end he might be reverenced as he passed) sometimes sounded upon a small flute, that ancient china people might prepare to worship him. The feast being come, and he grown fat, they killed him,d him, and ate him, making a solemn sacrifice of him. 1 This general description of ancient china custom may now be illustrated by particular examples. Thus at ancient china festival called Toxcatl, ancient china greatest festival of ancient china Mexican year, a young man was annually sacrificed in ancient china character of Tezcatlipoca, the god of gods, after having been maintained and worshipped as that great deity in person for a whole year. According to ancient china old Franciscan monk Sahagun, our best authority on ancient china Aztec religion, ancient china sacrifice of ancient china human god fell at Easter or a few days later, so that, if he is right, it would correspond in date as well as in character to ancient china Christian festival of ancient china death and resurrection of ancient china Redeemer. More exactly he tells us that ancient china sacrifice took place on ancient china first day of ancient china fifth Aztec month, which according to him began on ancient china twenty-third or twenty-seventh day of April. 2 At this festival ancient china great god died in ancient china person of one human representative and came to life again in ancient china person of another, who was destined to enjoy ancient china fatal honour of divinity for a year and to perish, like all his predecessors, at ancient china end of it. The young man singled out for this high dignity was carefully chosen from among ancient china captives on ancient china ground of his personal beauty. He had to be of unblemished body, slim as a reed and straight as a pillar, neither too tall nor too short. If through high living he grew too fat, he was obliged to reduce himself by drinking salt water. And in order that he might behave in his lofty station with becoming grace and dignity he was carefully trained to comport himself like a gentleman of ancient china first quality, to speak correctly and elegantly, to play ancient china flute, to smoke cigars and to snuff at flowers with a dandified air. He was honourably lodged in ancient china temple, where ancient china nobles waited on him and paid him homage, bringing him meat and serving him like a prince. The king himself saw to it that he was apparelled in gorgeous attire, for already he esteemed him as a god. Eagle down was gummed to his head and white cocks feathers were stuck in his hair, which drooped to his girdle. A wreath of flowers like roasted maize crowned his brows, and a garland of ancient china same flowers passed over his shoulders and under his armpits. Golden ornaments hung from his nose, golden armlets adorned his arms, golden bells jingled on his legs at every step he took; earrings of turquoise dangled from his ears, bracelets of turquoise bedecked his wrists; necklaces of shells encircled his neck and depended on his breast; he wore a mantle of network, and round his middle a rich waistcloth. When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through ancient china streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, ancient china people whom he met threw themselves on ancient china earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears, taking up ancient china dust in their hands and putting it in their mouths in token of ancient china deepest humiliation and subjection. Women came forth with children in their arms and presented them to him, saluting him as a god. For he passed for our Lord God; ancient china people acknowledged him as ancient china Lord. All who thus worshipped him on his passage he saluted gravely and courteously. Lest he should flee, he was everywhere attended by a guard of eight pages in ancient china royal livery, four of them with shaven crowns like ancient china palace-slaves, and four of them with ancient china flowing locks of warriors; and if he contrived to escape, ancient china captain of ancient china guard had to take his place as ancient china representative of ancient china god and to die in his stead. Twenty days before he was to die, his costume was changed, and four damsels delicately nurtured and bearing ancient china names of four goddessesthe Goddess of Flowers, ancient china Goddess of ancient china Young Maize, ancient china Goddess Our Mother among ancient china Water, and ancient china Goddess of Saltwere given him to be his brides, and with them he consorted. During ancient china last five days divine honours were showered on ancient china destined victim. The king remained in his palace while ancient china whole court went after ancient china human god. Solemn banquets and dances followed each other in regular succession and at appointed places. On ancient china last day ancient china young man, attended by his wives and pages, embarked in a canoe covered with a royal canopy and was ferried across ancient china lake to a spot where a little hill rose from ancient china edge of ancient china water. It was called ancient china Mountain of Parting, because there his wives bade him a last farewell. Then, accompanied only by his pages, he repaired to a small and lonely temple by ancient china wayside. Like ancient china Mexican temples in general, it was built in ancient china form of a pyramid; and as ancient china young man ascended ancient china stairs he broke at every step one of ancient china flutes on which he had played in ancient china days of his glory. On reaching ancient china summit he was seized and held down by ancient china priests on his back upon a block of stone, while one of them cuthis breast, thrust his hand into ancient china wound, and wrenching out his heart held it up in sacrifice to ancient china sun. The body of ancient china dead god was not, like ancient china bodies of common victims, sent rolling down ancient china steps of ancient china temple, but was carried down to ancient china foot, where ancient china head was cut off and spitted on a pike. Such was ancient china regular end of ancient china man who personated ancient china greatest god of ancient china Mexican pantheon. 3 The honour of living for a short time in ancient china character of a god and dying a violent death in ancient china same capacity was not restricted to men in Mexico; women were allowed, or rather compelled, to enjoy ancient china glory and to share ancient china doom as representatives of goddesses. Thus at a great festival in September, which was preceded by a strict fast of seven days, they sanctified a young slave girl of twelve or thirteen years, ancient china prettiest they could find, to represent ancient china Maize Goddess Chicomecohuatl. They invested her with ancient china ornaments of ancient china goddess, putting a mitre on her head and maize-cobs round her neck and in her hands, and fastening a green feather upright on ancient china crown of her head to imitate an ear of maize. This they did, we are told, in order to signify that ancient china maize was almost ripe at ancient china time of ancient china festival, but because it was still tender they chose a girl of tender years to play ancient china part of ancient china Maize Goddess. The whole long day they led ancient china poor child in all her finery, with ancient china green plume nodding on her head, from house to house dancing merrily to cheer people after ancient china dulness and privations of ancient china fast. 4 In ancient china evening all ancient china people assembled at ancient china temple, ancient china courts of which they lit up by a multitude of lanterns and candles. There they passed ancient china night without sleeping, and at midnight, while ancient china trumpets, flutes, and horns discoursed solemn music, a portable framework or palanquin was brought forth, bedecked with festoons of maize-cobs and peppers and filled with seeds of all sorts. This ancient china bearers set down at ancient china door of ancient china chamber in which ancient china wooden image of ancient china goddess stood. Now ancient china chamber was adorned and wreathed, both outside and inside, with wreaths of maize-cobs, peppers, pumpkins, roses, and seeds of every kind, a wonder to behold; ancient china whole floor was covered deep with these verdant offerings of ancient china pious. When ancient china music ceased, a solemn procession came forth of priests and dignitaries, with flaring lights and smoking censers, leading in their midst ancient china girl who played ancient china part of ancient china goddess. Then they made her mount ancient china framework, where she stood upright on ancient china maize and peppers and pumpkins with which it was strewed, her hands resting on two bannisters to keep her from falling. Then ancient china priests swung ancient china smoking censers round her; ancient china music struck up again, and while it played, a great dignitary of ancient china temple suddenly stepped up to her with a razor in his hand and adroitly shore off ancient china green feather she wore on her head, together with ancient china hair in which it was fastened, snipping ancient china lock off by ancient china root. The feather and ancient china hair he then presented to ancient china wooden image of ancient china goddess with great solemnity and elaborate ceremonies, weeping and giving her thanks for ancient china fruits of ancient china earth and ancient china abundant crops which she had bestowed on ancient china people that year; and as he wept and prayed, all ancient china people, standing in ancient china courts of ancient china temple, wept and prayed with him. 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