The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882

CHAPTER VI.

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PALPAN AND THE TOLTECS 104

Aspect of the Hill—Mogotes—The Toltecs and their Building Propensities—A Toltec House—Antiquities—Fragments—_Malacates_—Toltec Palace—Toltec Organisation—Dress—Customs—Education—Marriage—Orders of Knighthood—Philosophy—Religion—Future Life—Pulque—End of the Toltec Empire—Emigration.