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The Scale of Sacrifice
The prisoners taken at Teuclepec were brought out. Motecuhzoma and Chihuacoatl began to sacrifice them,
slicing open their chests and extracting their hearts. First, they raised the hearts to the sun, then they threw them into the shrine before the gods. This sacrifice began at midday and ended at nightfall. Two thousand three hundred men were killed and their blood bathed the entire temple and stairway. Each time the priest cut out a heart, they rolled the body down the stairs.
Source: Friar Diego Duran, The History of the lndies of New Spain, 1581, Doris Heyden, translator, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
The prisoners taken at Teuclepec were brought out. Motecuhzoma and Chihuacoatl began to sacrifice them,
slicing open their chests and extracting their hearts. First, they raised the hearts to the sun, then they threw them into the shrine before the gods. This sacrifice began at midday and ended at nightfall. Two thousand three hundred men were killed and their blood bathed the entire temple and stairway. Each time the priest cut out a heart, they rolled the body down the stairs.
Source: Friar Diego Duran, The History of the lndies of New Spain, 1581, Doris Heyden, translator, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.