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On the feast of the mountains, Tepetl, images of serpents and mountain spirits were made in the homes to honor the Tlalocs. And the women who represented the mountains, the ixiptla called Tepexoch, Matlalcueye, Xochtecatl, Mayahuel, were sacrificed, along with the male ixiptla of Milnahuatl, the serpent. T he women who carried the images in litters painted their faces, and had feathers pasted on their bodies. They carried the litters up the great temple, Coatepetl, to the temple of Tlaloc. The bodies of the mountain women were rolled down the stairs, and at the Tzompantli, the Skull Rack, their heads were severed and set up. Their bodies were taken to the neighborhood temples, the calpulco, and at dawn they were dismembered. At the same time, in the houses of the calpulli, the dough images of the mountains were cut apart and hung from the roof tops. And the human images of the 400 Totochtin , the rabbit gods of pulque, were killed at their temple. |
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