Note 784 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
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Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 30. Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. li., and Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 64, say that they face in all directions, which tends to prove that they must have faced the temple of the supreme and patron gods. 'Estando encontrados, y puestos vnos contra otros,' adds Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 141, 145. Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 119, states that they were turned against all points but the east, so as to differ from the chief temple. 'Tenian la cara ácia el occidente.' Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., p. 198. Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 334, states that the court held eight or nine temples facing all quarters.