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If the Mexicans had any God which they imagined presided over the rest, it was the Sun. It is evident. They had a great Veneration for this Planet, from the Speeches of Montezuma, and their ascribing whatever was great and wonderful to this Direction…

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This idol was worshipped in a different manner at Cholula, where his devotees thought they pleased him, by fasting and drawing blood from their tongues and ears; and sacrificed to him five boys and five girls, before they engaged in any martial…

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Though they undoubtedly have a notion of one supreme God, the maker and –server of the universe; yet all their visible worship centers on idols, of which they have multitudes, some of gold and low metals, and some of wood and stone

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If the Mexicans had any God which they imagined presided over the rest, it was the Sun. It is evident. They had a great Veneration for this Planet, from the Speeches of Montezuma, and their ascribing whatever was great and wonderful to this Direction…

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O ye cruel and ungrateful gods in what have I offended you?

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Old Mexico or New Spain: The divinities of the native inhabitants of Mexico were clothed with terror, and delighted in vengeance.

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And from thence took Occasion to discourse on the great Actions they had done, and the Prodigies with which Heaven had prepared their Way, the Marks they bore of those Oriental Men, promised to their Ancestors, and the Despondency of their own Gods,…

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They had also a Goddess called Tozi, or Our Great Grandmother; a Deity of their own framing; for it is reported their God Vitziliputzli directed them to demand of the King of Culiacan his Daughter, for their Queen; which being complied with, they put…

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The first Idol the Spanish Writers mention, was Vitziliputzli. And the second Tlalock

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How then could the Idol Vitziliputzli be adored as the One supreme Gods Besides, the same Writers acknowledge, that there was not one Indian Nation that had a Word in their Language, or any Term, that signified G O D.

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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…

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But unsheathed the swords of princes, and polluted the temple of Christ with more blood than was ever shed on the altars of Moloch, or in honour of Vitzililiputzuli, the God of Mexico.

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Crowds of Minor Gods in Heavenly State, I leave for Minor Poets to Create. If Future Ages shall more Monsters yeild,We've Stars enough in the Celestial Field;Immortal Legends that may now revise,Turn Saints to Gods, Transpose them to the Skies,And…

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Conspicuous in the front of danger stood the brave Alonzo. Terrible as a flame of fire, and steady as a rock in the ocean. Thou wouldst have thought it had been Visiliputsli, the great god of battles, dispensing death.

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The old Mexicans worship’d Vitzliputzli, at the same Time that they own’d his Malice, and execrated his Cruelty; yet it is highly probable, that some of them were deterr’d from Perjury for Fear of being punish’d by Vitzliputzli; who would have been…

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Tendile who was the most acute of the two in appearance, remarked at this time a partly gilt helmet with one of our soldiers, and observed that it resembled one which had belonged to their ancestors, and which was placed on the head of their god…

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Their favourite deity was Camaxtle, the same which was worshipped by the Mexicans, under the name of Huitzilopochtli.

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The Roman, Grecian, and old Assyrian Polytheim, will no more pass Muster, than that of Mexico or Peru. Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Juno, and Minerva will be kick’d out of their Temples, as well a Vitziliputzli.

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Our Author afterwards view’d the Pyramid of the Sun, call’d Tonagli, which stood two hundred Paces South of the former; and he found two Sides of it three hundred Spanish Yards in Length; and the other two about two hundred; and it was a Fourth Part…

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Though they undoubtedly have a notion of one supreme God, the maker and –server of the universe; yet all their visible worship centres on idols, of which they have multitudes, some of gold and low metals, and some of wood and stone

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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.

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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.

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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…

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The fourth Image was the Mercury of the Mexicans. Represented under a human Shape, and called Quitzalcoatl: He was more particularly address’d by Merchants and Tradesmen.

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Moreover, the Report that was spread, that in his Reign Strangers should be Masters of the Kingdom of Mexico, alarmed him: and lest this Report should raise any Sedition among his Subjects, he caused another to be spread, That Quatzaltoalt, or the…

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there was one round Temple dedicated to the God of the air called Quecalcovatl ; for even the air goeth round about the heavens, even for that consideration they made this Temple round. The entrance of that Temple had a door made like unto the mouth…

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

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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…

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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…

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Among these, -- of distinguished note; the one, made of wood, but curiously –med with gold and jewels, represents the sun, and therefore seated in an azure-coloured chair, to signify his abode in the ----, and has an high tuft of feathers, tipped…

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The third Idol was Tescalipuca, called the God of Penance; to whom they address’d themselves in their Distresses, and in their Fasts. It was an Image of human Form, caved out of black shining Stone, and represented sitting on a Chair in the middle of…

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A party of thirty of us commanded by our captain then proceeded to examine the Island, where we found a temple containing a very large and hideous image intended to represent a God, the name given to which was Tezcatepuca. Here were four Indians in…

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The first Idol the Spanish Writers mention, was Vitziliputzli. And the second Tlalock

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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…

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Near to this idol stood a pillar of less work and beauty, on which was another idol, called Tlaloc, perhaps by this they meant the moon.

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They had also a Goddess called Tozi, or Our Great Grandmother; a Deity of their own framing; for it is reported their God Vitziliputzlu directed them to demand of the King of Culiacan his Daughter, for their Queen; which being complied with, they put…

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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…

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