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CANSIBALIsN OF THE ANCIENT MExrcArx-Hx-
man SdcrIfces.-The ancient Mexicans used a,
celebrate their religious festivals by fsastinu am
the flesh or their prisoners or or slaves whose
hearts their priests offered up to their idols in The
gorgeous places which reared their pyramida.
forms throughout the domirions of Montezuma.
The Spanish clergy who witnessed these horrible
scenes, which were of every day ocrurance be-
lore The conquest, declared that this srtal hellr
was n device Of Satan to counterfeit the Holy
Sacrament and the death Of our blessed Saviour.
Montezuma's dinner table was never without
nesh of human victims That monarch and his
nine hundred and fiffy wives habtuaIIv toasted
on the flesh Of infants and Young children, pre-
pared In the most luxurious forms. The number
OF persons sacrificed yearly in the Montezumas
empire, Is stated at from twenty thousand to ffty
tno1sand. Cortez, the Spansh conqueror count
ca I5bsUU0 skulls of these victims i'm one Mexican
temple alone I'm times of drought, the priests
sacrificed thousand OF infants daily, offering nd
Their hearts TO the god of rain As the little
creatures were conveyed in gay professions 10
me bloody temple, their cries, united with the
Wia chaunfs of The priests, would reEd the air.
ana the more the children cried, the more the
priests reJoIced, that being considered as a sure
slgn OF rain. The priests would cut open the
ofeast Of the victim, tearing out the heart, and
presenting II 70 the idol They would smear their
nead ana garments with the blood, crowds of
worshPPers prostruting themselves in the mean
'ne around the foot Of the pyramidal temple.


In some Of the secluded districts Of Mexico,
ana our own county, there Indians, even at
ms DAY, who 20 through the ceremony Of roast
ing certain portion Of the body of everv enemy
slam IN battle. and. after presenting IL 10 their
lips, The warriors throw it to their women who
devour it with avidiiy.