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it moves, all those who come in contact with it die. It eats them all. 13
This not only parallels accounts from the Old World identifying giants with the practice of cannibalism, but in the Aztec context, there is a subtle implication that the story has something to do with the practice of human sacrifice itself, with the literal consumption of the people being “cooked” as burnt sacrifices for the gods; the “giant,” we are told, is opened up, and there is no blood, no heart. The giant, who consumes the lives of the people, is a heartless machine. 14
c. Quetzlcoatl, Sacrifice, Payment, and “the Sorcerers”
We now come to confront the issue of human sacrifice in Aztec culture, as it is recounted in the Codex Chimalpopoca , directly. In one place, the account states that in the year 1487, or the year 8 Reed asthe Aztecs called it, some 80,400 prisoners were sacrificed on the top of the pyramid at Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. 15 Indeed, the numbers are so staggering that one begins to wonder if the whole vast program of Aztec conquest was really driven by a perceived “need” for a constant supply of sacrificial victims.
However, that same Codex makes it very clear that the god who was considered by the Aztecs themselves to have founded their civilization, Quetzlcoatl, forbade it. The following story of its origins is told, and with it, one has a further insight into the Aztec version of the Masonic ritual and dedication of the Temple:
The Toltecs were engaged (in battle) at a place called Netlalpan. And when they had taken captives, human sacrifice also got started, as Toltecs sacrificed their prisoners. Among them and in their midst the devil Yaotl followed along. Right on the spot he kept inciting them to make human sacrifices.
And then, too, he started and began the practice of flaying humans… Then he made one of the Toltecs named Ziuhcozcatl wear the skin, and he was the first to war a totec skin.
Indeed, every kind of human sacrifice that there used to be got started then. For it is told and related that during his time and under his authority, the first Quetzlcoatl, whose name was Ce Acatl, absolutely refused to perform human sacrifice. It was precisely when Huemac was ruler that all those things that used to be done got started. It was the devils who started them. But this has been put on paper and written down elsewhere. And there it is to be heard.
… Huemac sacrificed a human streamer, thus making payment. 16
There are three things to notice here:
1) Sacrifice is considered a payment , i.e., something that is owed , and hence, the implied concept is that there is a debt to be paid, for whatever reason;
2) Sacrifice was not the original order of society, but was instituted at some later period by devils ; and,
3) it was instituted by one devil in particular , someone named Yaotl, whose name contains the root “Ya” and who both in name and in character sounds more than a little like the “Yahweh” of the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, who takes such delight in smelling the aroma of sacrificed animals.
One final thing should also be noted before we continue, and that is that the name “Quetzlcoatl” appears to be understood by the Aztecs to be a titular name, the name of an office as much as it is the name of a person, and office similar in nature to the Mayans’ description, “Sovereign Plumed Serpent.”
The idea of “devils” having been behind the institution of sacrifice is further elaborated:
7 Rabbit (1018). Here began the sacrifice of the human streamers. At that time, in the time of 7 Rabbit, a great famine occurred. What is said is that the Toltecs were seven-rabbited. It was a seven-year famine, a famine that caused much suffering and death.
It was then that the sorcerers requisitioned Huemac’s own children and went and left them in the waters of Xochiquetzal and on Huitzco and on
This not only parallels accounts from the Old World identifying giants with the practice of cannibalism, but in the Aztec context, there is a subtle implication that the story has something to do with the practice of human sacrifice itself, with the literal consumption of the people being “cooked” as burnt sacrifices for the gods; the “giant,” we are told, is opened up, and there is no blood, no heart. The giant, who consumes the lives of the people, is a heartless machine. 14
c. Quetzlcoatl, Sacrifice, Payment, and “the Sorcerers”
We now come to confront the issue of human sacrifice in Aztec culture, as it is recounted in the Codex Chimalpopoca , directly. In one place, the account states that in the year 1487, or the year 8 Reed asthe Aztecs called it, some 80,400 prisoners were sacrificed on the top of the pyramid at Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. 15 Indeed, the numbers are so staggering that one begins to wonder if the whole vast program of Aztec conquest was really driven by a perceived “need” for a constant supply of sacrificial victims.
However, that same Codex makes it very clear that the god who was considered by the Aztecs themselves to have founded their civilization, Quetzlcoatl, forbade it. The following story of its origins is told, and with it, one has a further insight into the Aztec version of the Masonic ritual and dedication of the Temple:
The Toltecs were engaged (in battle) at a place called Netlalpan. And when they had taken captives, human sacrifice also got started, as Toltecs sacrificed their prisoners. Among them and in their midst the devil Yaotl followed along. Right on the spot he kept inciting them to make human sacrifices.
And then, too, he started and began the practice of flaying humans… Then he made one of the Toltecs named Ziuhcozcatl wear the skin, and he was the first to war a totec skin.
Indeed, every kind of human sacrifice that there used to be got started then. For it is told and related that during his time and under his authority, the first Quetzlcoatl, whose name was Ce Acatl, absolutely refused to perform human sacrifice. It was precisely when Huemac was ruler that all those things that used to be done got started. It was the devils who started them. But this has been put on paper and written down elsewhere. And there it is to be heard.
… Huemac sacrificed a human streamer, thus making payment. 16
There are three things to notice here:
1) Sacrifice is considered a payment , i.e., something that is owed , and hence, the implied concept is that there is a debt to be paid, for whatever reason;
2) Sacrifice was not the original order of society, but was instituted at some later period by devils ; and,
3) it was instituted by one devil in particular , someone named Yaotl, whose name contains the root “Ya” and who both in name and in character sounds more than a little like the “Yahweh” of the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, who takes such delight in smelling the aroma of sacrificed animals.
One final thing should also be noted before we continue, and that is that the name “Quetzlcoatl” appears to be understood by the Aztecs to be a titular name, the name of an office as much as it is the name of a person, and office similar in nature to the Mayans’ description, “Sovereign Plumed Serpent.”
The idea of “devils” having been behind the institution of sacrifice is further elaborated:
7 Rabbit (1018). Here began the sacrifice of the human streamers. At that time, in the time of 7 Rabbit, a great famine occurred. What is said is that the Toltecs were seven-rabbited. It was a seven-year famine, a famine that caused much suffering and death.
It was then that the sorcerers requisitioned Huemac’s own children and went and left them in the waters of Xochiquetzal and on Huitzco and on
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