Accordingly,
obnoxious persons, drenching them with ice-cold water, and covering
and flung them at the heads of the first persons they met. The only
dreamed of. On one day of the festival.html">festival the ceremony of driving away
of wild beasts, their faces covered with hideous masks, and their
frightful noises; in every hut they took the fuel from the fire and
general confession of sins which preceded the festival was probably
way of stripping the people.html">people of their moral burdens, that these might
the object of which was to banish from the capital and its vicinity
rains begin about this time, and with the first rains there was
people fasted on the first day of the moon after the autumnal
they baked a coarse paste.html">paste.html">paste.html">paste.html">paste of maize. This paste was made of two
ten years, the blood.html">blood.html">blood.html">blood being obtained by bleeding the children between
because they were for different uses. Each family assembled at the
had no elder brother went to the house of their next relation of
washed their bodies.html">bodies, and taking a little of the blood-kneaded paste,
They did this in order that the paste might take away all their
threshold with the same paste, and left it there as a token that the
their bodies. Meantime the High Priest performed the same ceremonies
worshipped and besought him to drive all evils out of the city, and
without blood. When they had paid their worship and broken their
the Sun as one man, an Inca of the blood royal came forth from the
girded round his body, and a lance.html">lance in his hand. The lance was.
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