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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol. III

by Hubert Howe Bancroft

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...como juramento... Tenian tambien costumbre de hacer juramento de cumplir alguna eota A que se obligaban, y aquel a quien se obligaban lea demandaba que hiciesen juramento para estar seguro de su palabra y el juramento que hacian era en esta forma: Por vida del Sol y de nuestra senora la tierra que no falte en lo que tengo dicho, y para mayor seguridad como esta tierra; y luego tocaba con loa dedos en la tierra, llegabalos a la boca y lamialos; y asi comia tierra haciendo juramento.' Kingsboroiigli's Mtx. Anixq., vol. vh., pp. -5-6, ICl; Sahaqun, llist. Gen., toza, i'i., lib. i., ap., pp. 212, 226; Clavigtro, Storia Atxt. del Mosteo, tom. ii., p. 25. PENANCES. 383 distinctly pronounced chant, as one that walked along a very straight way turning neither to the right hand nor to the left. When he had done the priest answered him as follows: My son, thou hast spoken before our Lord God, revealing to him thine evil works; and I shall now tell thee what thou hast to do. When the goddesses Civapipilti descend to the earth, or when it is the time of the festival of the four sister goddesses of carnality that are called Yxcuina, thou shalt fast four days afflicting thy stomach and thy mouth; this feast of the Yxcuina being come, at daybreak thou shalt do penance suitable to thy sins.33 Through a hole pierced by a maguey-thorn through the middle of thy tongue thou shall pass certain osier-twigs called teucahacatl or tlacotl, passing them in front of the face and throwing them over the shoulder one by one; or thou mayest fasten them the one to the other and so pull them through thy tongue like a long cord. These twigs were sometimes passed through a hole in the ear; and, wherever they were passed, it would appear by ou...… (more)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...como juramento... Tenian tambien costumbre de hacer juramento de cumplir alguna eota A que se obligaban, y aquel a quien se obligaban lea demandaba que hiciesen juramento para estar seguro de su palabra y el juramento que hacian era en esta forma: Por vida del Sol y de nuestra senora la tierra que no falte en lo que tengo dicho, y para mayor seguridad como esta tierra; y luego tocaba con loa dedos en la tierra, llegabalos a la boca y lamialos; y asi comia tierra haciendo juramento.' Kingsboroiigli's Mtx. Anixq., vol. vh., pp. -5-6, ICl; Sahaqun, llist. Gen., toza, i'i., lib. i., ap., pp. 212, 226; Clavigtro, Storia Atxt. del Mosteo, tom. ii., p. 25. PENANCES. 383 distinctly pronounced chant, as one that walked along a very straight way turning neither to the right hand nor to the left. When he had done the priest answered him as follows: My son, thou hast spoken before our Lord God, revealing to him thine evil works; and I shall now tell thee what thou hast to do. When the goddesses Civapipilti descend to the earth, or when it is the time of the festival of the four sister goddesses of carnality that are called Yxcuina, thou shalt fast four days afflicting thy stomach and thy mouth; this feast of the Yxcuina being come, at daybreak thou shalt do penance suitable to thy sins.33 Through a hole pierced by a maguey-thorn through the middle of thy tongue thou shall pass certain osier-twigs called teucahacatl or tlacotl, passing them in front of the face and throwing them over the shoulder one by one; or thou mayest fasten them the one to the other and so pull them through thy tongue like a long cord. These twigs were sometimes passed through a hole in the ear; and, wherever they were passed, it would appear by ou...

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