Huitzilopochtli

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 make Red-Lettered-Rakes Divinities.

Nor need we search to Wild American Lands,
Peruvians, Caribbeans, Mexicans;
And dig for Idols in the Flaming Womb
Of Burning Mountains, where they fix the Tomb
Of (b) Vistlipustli, (c) Agomog, and Voare,
Gods of the Untam’d Chileans Golden Oar;

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Nota al pie de página:
(b) Vistlipustli was the great Idol of the Mexicans, to whom they offer'd human Sacrifices; and to such a Height had the Devil brought his Dominion over those poor People, that in two years time, 20000 People were sacrific'd to this Idol: The Walls of his Temple were sprinkled two or three Inches thich, on the Inside, with the Blood of these poor Creatures, who were put to Death at his Altar; and these Murthers were perpetrated with all sorts of Barbarous Torments, and horrid, excrable Methods of Torture: But the Credit of the Relators being not too much to be depended upon, I forbear the Particulars