A Penitential Rite of the Ancient Mexicans
A Penitential Rite of the Ancient Mexicans
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Sahagun's version of the creation of the sun and moon (book VII, chap. II ) differs from the foregoing and relates that it was Nanaoatzin who, ''after oflfering agave points stained with his blood and stuck into grass balls," voluntarily cast himself into the fire and became the sun; while Tecuciztecatl; following his example became the moon.
From Bishop Diego de Landa, who devotes a whole chap- ter to the "Cruel and obscene rites of the Yucatecs," we learn that similar forms of self-torture we...re practised in Yucatan.
The ear-sacrifice is described as follows: "They sometimes made an offering of their own blood by making incisions all around the external border of their ears, leaving the lacerations as records of their penance" (ed. Brasseur de Bourbourg, p. 161). Bishop Landa expressly states that "the women of Yucatan did not make blood-offerings although they were very Pig. 4.
devout." It is therefore remarkable that the Maya Codex, named Troano, contains representations of three men and one woman in the act of piercing their left ears, from each of which a stream of blood falls into what are presumably small bowls placed in front of each penitent (Fig.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Sahagun's version of the creation of the sun and moon (book VII, chap. II ) differs from the foregoing and relates that it was Nanaoatzin who, ''after oflfering agave points stained with his blood and stuck into grass balls," voluntarily cast himself into the fire and became the sun; while Tecuciztecatl; following his example became the moon.
From Bishop Diego de Landa, who devotes a whole chap- ter to the "Cruel and obscene rites of the Yucatecs," we learn that similar forms of self-torture we...re practised in Yucatan.
The ear-sacrifice is described as follows: "They sometimes made an offering of their own blood by making incisions all around the external border of their ears, leaving the lacerations as records of their penance" (ed. Brasseur de Bourbourg, p. 161). Bishop Landa expressly states that "the women of Yucatan did not make blood-offerings although they were very Pig. 4.
devout." It is therefore remarkable that the Maya Codex, named Troano, contains representations of three men and one woman in the act of piercing their left ears, from each of which a stream of blood falls into what are presumably small bowls placed in front of each penitent (Fig.
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