219 BC
Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BCDecades: 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC - 210s BC - 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC
Years: 224 BC 223 BC 222 BC 221 BC 220 BC - 219 BC - 218 BC 217 BC 216 BC 215 BC 214 BC
Events
- Second Punic War: Hannibal conquers the Greek colony of Saguntum, an ally of Rome.
Births
Deaths
The body of the dead god was not, like the
carried down to the foot, where the head was cut off and spitted on a pike.
Mexican pantheon.
The honour of living for a short time in the character of a god and dying
women were allowed, or rather compelled, to enjoy the glory and to share the
which was preceded by a strict fast.html">fast of seven days, they sanctified a young
represent the maize.html">maize.html">Maize Goddess Chicomecohuatl. They invested her with the
neck and in her hands, and fastening a green feather upright on the crown of
signify that the maize was almost ripe at the time of the festival, but
of the Maize Goddess. The whole long day they led the poor child in all her
merrily to cheer people.html">people after the dulness and privations of the fast.
In the evening all the people assembled at the temple.html">temple, the courts of which
night without sleeping, and at midnight, while the trumpets, flutes, and horns
bedecked with festoons of maize-cobs and peppers and filled with seeds of all
wooden image of the goddess.html">goddess stood. Now the chamber was adorned and wreathed,
and seeds of every kind, a wonder to behold; the whole floor was covered deep
procession came forth of priests and dignitaries, with flaring lights and
goddess. Then they made her mount the framework, where she stood upright on
resting on two bannisters to keep her from falling. Then the priests swung the
great dignitary of the temple suddenly stepped up to her with a razor in his
with the hair in which it was fastened, snipping the lock off by the.
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