Perhaps thou canst for a time support the governed … [But] [t]hou wilt become as smut, and he [Tezcatlipoca] will send you into the vegetation, into the forest. And he will cast thee, push thee, as is said, into the excrement, into the refuse
All our dark days become one long now, all our horizons blackened with the soot of our past follies. Oh people at the end of history, a black cloud has come over you.
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Florentine Codex, via (pic) by way of http://v.ht/8ls6 . Great book, Aztecs most alien society I have ever encountered, and one on which sociological explanations/justifications of religion founder. And Abandoned Footnotes is one of the best blogs around.pic.twitter.com/7dVPVBvbnv
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Hmmm I must look into it
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