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they went and put him in the sand.
     
    Then the king vulture says to him, “They’ve killed your father. It’s over yonder that he lies, that they’ve buried him.”
     
    So he went and dug him up and put him in his temple, Mixcoatepetl.
     
    Now, his uncles, the ones who killed his father, are called Apanecatly, Zolton, and Cuilton, and they say, “How will he dedicate his temple? If there’s only a rabbit, if there’s only a snake, we would be angry. A jaguar, an eagle, a world would be good.” And so they told him this.
     
    Ce Acatl said — he told them — “Alright. It shall be.”
     
    Then he called the jaguar, the eagle, and the wolf. He said to them, “Come, uncles. They say I must use you to dedicate my temple. But you will not die. Rather you will eat the ones I use to dedicate my temple — they’re those uncles of mine.” And so it was without any real purpose that ropes were tied around their necks.
     
    …
     
    Then his uncles are furious, and off they go, Apanecatl in the lead, climbing quickly.
     
    But Ca Acatly rose up and broke his head with a burnished pot, and he came tumbling down.
     
   Then he seizes Zolton and Cuilton. Then the animals blow (on the fire). Then they sacrifice them.
     
    … And after they’ve tortured them, they cut open their breasts. 12
     
    If one did not know better, one might think one was reading the rituals of the first three degrees of Freemasonry, for we find no less than these common elements between them:
1)  a king, in the Masonic ritual, Hiram Abiff, king of Tyre, who is building the Temple, and in the Aztec version Ce Acatl;
2)  his “three attendants,” in the Masonic ritual, Jubelo, Jubela, and Jubelum, and in the Aztec version Apanecatl, Zolton, and Cuilton;
3)  a temple, which in both cases, is “dedicated” by human sacrifice, in the Masonic ritual, by the murder of King Hiram by his three attendants, and in the Aztec case, just the reverse, by the king’s murder of his three attendants; and,
4)  torture, followed by the cutting open of the breast, which recalls the Masonic ritual once again, where the point of a compass is pressed to the left nipple of the candidate for initiation.
    The ritual of the Blue Lodge of Masonry is of unquestioned antiquity, but what are its echoes doing here, in the Valley of Mexico, in the Aztec culture, and in connection with sacrifice? This, and the strange resemblance of Quetzlcoatl (and Kukulcan and Viracocha) to Osiris, removes such correspondences from the realm of coincidence and places them in to the category of evidence that we are looking at the remains of a common cultural inheritance, differently construed by the legacy cultures it left behind.
    b. Giants and Cannibalism
     
    Nor is this the only strange parallel between New World sacrifices and Old World legends. There is another strange connection, this time, in legends of cannibalistic giants:
     
   Now, in Tollan the people were no more.
     
    Huemac was ruler., The second was called Necuametl, the third was Tlaltecatzin, the fourth was called Huitzilpopoca. The four were lift behind by Topilzin when he went away. And the ruler of Nonoalco was called Huetzin…
     
    Now then, an omen came to him; he saw an ash-bundle man, a giant. And it was the very one who was eating people.
     
    Then the Toltecs say, “O Toltecs, who is it that’s eating people?”
     
    Then they snared it, they captured it. And what they captured was a beardless boy.
     
    Then they kill it. And when they’ve killed it, they look inside it: it has no heart, no innards, no blood.
     
    Then it stinks. And whoever smells it dies from it, as well as whoever does not smell it, who (simply) passes by. And so a great many people are dying.
     
    Then they go to drag it away, but it cannot be moved. And when the rope breaks, those who fall down die on the spot. And when