Word: tenochtitl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mass. Inland, the conquistadors first met the strange Mexican-Indian priesthood, men whose hair was caked with human blood and whose temple floors were clogged with it. The Christians had no hesitation in breaking their idols. Even then they had no notion that in the city of Tenochtitlán as many as 20,000 human sacrifices had been made in one ceremony. Victims stood in queues miles long waiting their turns, as relays of beaked and painted priests presided at the altar set up at the top of the pyramid-temples to cut out living hearts with stone knives...
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