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Show AN AZTEC SACRIFICE. Cats nrr1b1a f Man In 4ftlco la Ida Hays ef tha Maalasumas. Hhytwo yetr coaVltiitl tba A tier tjelo, Tolbls cyclwo added awTnplo-mentnf awTnplo-mentnf thirteen days, Intended to make lb solar and dell years ae,ree, Uwaal lievnt that tl.s world would coma to nn end onth laalnlnhtof a cycle, ami lhalih ipnIs, If merrirut, woult llabt tbclr llrr on tbo distant mounUla. If th world did nut com U an end lb Attec eonjmlu-Utetl eonjmlu-Utetl tbenia-lvr tbst It wool I surrlr an other cycle, and lb tfcirteen compliment arydaya wen pnwed with feasts, sacrlflt-e aiidbuxhanala. In lb templa of IlnlttlllpothtU ther ws lo b a filadlalorlal comlt, whttli waahothlnfclratlhanft sactince, ThosU rololsteMof th ceremony wen at bin L Toplltxln, the thief Among tbem, clsil In a crlinstm velmeiit, with a crown of varl dtlorol fpatbrrs. was performing th dntlesthatpttctdMaaarriQco totbogwl, inl tb others, with wblta nW Ijurdertd with LUcl, their raco lildeou with som her pigment nl moiilhs pointed white, wsUtl blm. A crowd filled Iho stono Ralls of tha tempi lo wltoeM Iho apotU tie, surgtujt with Impatience about tb tcroalcatl (or round, stono platform, right fret high) wbrro th oouibtt was to tak pUco. Tb Tlrtlm, a prlaonerof war. Is brought In. Armeil with only a short ixar n.l shtrl l,li 1 placeil upon tbetnAlcatl,tIel by on foot ami coufruutfl by an Acteo warrior fully armeil Tb flat nostrils ot Ihn Tlcllm aro Uisttndnl, bU I. lack, eje-i bum with iltpertlnnt bli coarw. Mack hair strsKglcd aboat Ms fate, anl bl Ihkk, pnrplo llp qtilrrras bo views tbo welt armct Mil Her beforn him. At a word thy fsll to the fray ThJ (ears rliwh and Ibyflgbt Ilk demons tb victim with th itrtrMI n nf ctrlflln death, th soldier to uphold his talor among his co tnrsd's. rtiiddenly, rrallilnjt bow unequal the contest, au-l that ).! fata Is sealnl what icr llraoutoomaof that Iwllle, tbo prlt i oner Ihruwa away bis shield and car and prw-euU bis lireatt lo tbo soldier's weapon. A pauk, a ltow, nnI tbo victim fall beavlty to tba ston. In trie- th priest, with frensIM sboiiUanlbalratttsmlux about tbrlrilo-ruonlvwl tbrlrilo-ruonlvwl fom at npon lb Umalcatl,anl bara Imrna tha dyinc iuau ton block of Sreen Jacr, uu wbost comex aurfsco they throw blm. This li tba utcrlUcM alone, and TopllUlu, who now take tbo nam oft h kM In whom ho sacrifices, opens tb breast of his victim, tears out hU heart and offers It, still I'alplutlntr, to lb Thrn (b Meedlcn trophy la plat d In tb Lollotr mouth of tb Idol HnllcllIpKlitll( and th lip ut th ststue daubed, with blooiL, 'Ihadealtuan 1 decapitated and his he 1 ilr w I led lu th 1 aompatlt, au i-suary i-suary where Iho skulls u? Mcrlrttni prls oner ot wnr art actlntvtb waits. Tbo tobller clslms the Irtdyfor Mdi, and tears It sayfr th delettallcn tit himself him-self and his antLntpot hslrat ciinradrs. TLnAttecaniialsthstcniiiedoMn to u aro fftuttrd Wilhnct&eo Ilk 111 -IHtiolt Ire rrtss. |
