The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies

CHAPTER IX.

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Mexico--Mythology of the Aztecs--Its Peculiar Characteristics-- Belief of the Aztecs with regard to the Supreme Being-- Subordinate Deities--Huitzilopotchli--Legend of Quetzalcoatl-- Household Divinities--Belief of the Aztecs with regard to a Future State--Singular Ceremony--Rites of Burial--Aztec Priests--Priestesses--Mexican Temples--Pyramid of Cholula-- Sacrifices--Their Number--Victims offered annually to Tezcatlipoca--Cannibal Repasts--Montezuma 274