Note 840 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
Reading edition
Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 370; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 6-7. Duran states that kings bore the corpse and that the mourners were dressed as water-goddesses. Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix., xl., tom. ii., cap. li. Acosta says that the arms and insignia were carried before the body by knights. Hist. de las Ynd., p. 321.