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And from this manner of these Heathens Temples and Altars, made with steps, we may observe how like unto them is now the Church of Rome, which as it confesseth that there never was a Church without visible sacrifice, and therefore teacheth that…

That instead of the Mexicans sacrificing Thousands and twenty thousands annually, as those Adventurers reported, they never sacrificed fifty in any one Year. And, for ought I can learn, they neither sacrificed Beasts or Men constantly; but only on…

But, notwithstanding they are said to be without religion, the Spanish Historians, most of them, agree, that this savage People worshipped the Sun and the Moon, and sacrificed Fowls and other Animals to them.

I proceed, in the next place, to enquire into the Religión of the Mexican Tribes, who succeeded the Chichimeca’s; and these, according to Acosta, de Solis, and other Spanish Writers of Figure, acknowledg’d one supreme God as well as Peruvians, and…

They insist, that a People, which made the sacrificing their own Species the chief part of their religion, ought to have been extirpated.

These Adventurers, says the good Bishop, invented such stories to justify their own Barbarity. It may truly be said, that the Spaniards, since their Arrival in the Indies, have annually sacrificed to their Goddess Avarice, more People than the…

If we might believe some Authors, indeed, they did not only sacrifice Men, but eat them; and had Samples of human Flesh in their Markets.

Motezuma, Lisinga, Pilpatoe, Priests, Grandees of the Empire, and Guards with lighted Flambeaux; they all stand near the Altar in the utmost Consternation, looking at the human Victims that have been offered up.

Was not I more than profuse in offering you victims and incense? Thousands of harmless creatures were sacrificed on your altars.

Human sacrifices constituted the principal part of the religious rites of the Mexicans

Cortes industriously turned the discourse upon Religion, and in particular, exclaimed with such strength of argument against the horrible ceremony of human sacrifices, that the king, partly convinced by his reasons, from that day banished dishes of…

“Soon after the Zempoallans assembled on one of their most solemn festivals, in order to offer human sacrifices, which were performed with horrible ceremonies; when the wretched victims being cut to pieces were sold to the people as sacred food.”

The first Adeventurers inform us, that they were a wonderful ingenious People, inoffensive and hospitable; and, except the matter of human Sacrifices and their idolatrous Worship, which their Superstition requir’d, there was very little Reformation…

Human sacrifices are generally prohibited; but, upon more solemn occasions, such as ----, or coronation of their king, their entering upon a --, and public supplications for success, they sacrificed children, -- four to ten years of age

They sacrifice to devils, and (as an author who dwelt in the place, tells us) have several oratories, or dark ---, full of idols, great and small, which they bathe and wash with blood, even the blood of men

Fasts, mortifications and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means which they employed to appease the wrath of their Gods. But of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable.

For they offer’d up humane Sacrifices, they brought even Children (whose tender Age raises pity even in an Enemy’s Heart) to their bloody Altars ; imploring the Mercy of the Gods by spilling the Blood of those, for the sparing of whose Lives their…

De Solis, in his history of the conquest of Mexico, tells us, that the Indians sacrificed in that city every year, twenty thousand lives to their accursed idol.

One of the principal tributes which he imposed upon the people, was, a certain number of men to be sacrificed every year, to abate the fury of an ugly deformed idol, which was set up in the great temple of Mexico. Such numbers of poor victims, as the…

And in Mexico, at the Death of their King, they were wont to slaughter two hundred persons that might attend ‘em to the other World.

Sacrificio combativo
A gladiatorial sacrifice

Sacrificio
A common sacrifice

Mictlanteuctli, the god of hell, and Mictancihuatl his female companion, were much honoured by the Mexicans. These deities were imagined to dwell in a place of great darkness in the bowels of the earth. They had a temple in Mexico, in which they held…

Pour le sacrifice des hommes, il étoit en usage chez les Peuples du Mexiques , du Perou, de la Floride: mais le modele leur en seroit-il venu des Thraces & des anciens Grecs.

Les Navatalques n´apportèrent pas du nord la coûtume de sacrifier des victimes humaines, ces sacrifices barbares ne furent institués qu´après leur entrée dans le Mexique , & à l´occasion d´un évènement dont on trouve l´histoire dans Acosta.

Many savage nations, at present, use human sacrifices; which were very much practised even in the more civilised parts of America, among the Mexicans particularly, the genius of whose Religion was extremely cruel and unfeeling.

Some have given the second Rank of Cholula, which formerly was not inferior to the other; and in this City built in Plain, and in the neighbouring Towns, the Mexicans by the suggestion of the Devil, impiously offered upon their Altars in Sacrifices,…

One of the chief Priests went in the Night to perform Penance. He carried Fire and a Bag full of Perfume to sacrifice to the Devil

They sacrifice to devils, and (as an author who dwelt in the place, tells us) have several oratories, or dark ---, full of idols, great and small, which they bathe and wash with blood, even the blood of men

Centeotl, goddess of the earth and of corn, called likewise, Tonacajohua, that is, the she who support us. [...]she was particularly revered and honoured by the Totonacas, who esteemed her to be their chief protectress and erected to her, upon the…
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