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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations, Volume 2

Note 852 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.

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'Al cuarto dia, al anochecer, cargaron los sacerdotes la arca de las cenizas y la estatua, y la colocaron en una especie de nicho, dentro del templo.' Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 10. 'Sous le pavé même du sanctuaire, devant la statue du dieu.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 574. Duran mentions that the ashes of one king were deposited at the foot of the stone of sacrifice. Hist. Indias, MS., tom. ii., cap. li.; Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 142; Cortés, Cartas, p. 106; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. li.

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