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Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE AZTEC CALENDAR STONE. Turn from the cathedral southward, enter the street oppositethat by which you entered the plaza, pass by the Presidents palaceand the post-office, and you come to a museum of antiquities. Inthe centre of its court lies a huge, round, red granite stone, twelvefeet in diameter, four feet high. This stone is covered with amor- . ,ii Ml/ ill .1
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THE STREET OF SAN FRANCISCO. I2-, phous figures, and is deep stained as if with blood. Where thecathedral stands, a teocallis stood—five terraces, and two hun-dred feet high. By a fivefold series of stairs in one corner, andfivefold circuit of the mound, the teocallis was mounted. On itstop was this stone. Around the sides of the teocallis and up itssteps they led their victims—men and youth by the thousands—made them pause before this stone, stretched their chests over it,so that the heart was strained over its edge, cut the flesh over theheart opening to it, plucked the heart forth, laid it reverently be-fore the god, and hurled the body clown the sides of the teocallisto the multitude below, who took it up carefully, cooked it, and ateit as a religious banquet. The cathedral is better than the teocallis,and the genuflexions and millinery of priests and bishops than thesacrifice of bloody hearts and the sacrament of cannibalism. Turn northward again. We pass up the street of S

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