Note 22 — Chapter VI · THE GODS OF RAIN AND MOISTURE
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“After they were slain and their hearts torn out, they were taken slowly away, being dragged down the temple stairs to the bottom, where their heads were cut off and placed upon wooden pikes, while their bodies were taken to the calpulli22 and there divided for eating. The papers with which the statues were decorated were hung up in the temples, after the statues had been broken up for food.”23