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all dangers, especially in the wars against their enemies ; and it was 

 never the principal [God], for they knew that he was hidden, and that 

 if at any time he appeared to them and spoke to them, it was always in 

 the form of animals, and of these the most ahominahle, ugly, and hide- 

 ous. Indeed, in order that the boy might know which one the God 

 Chinigchinix destined for him, and in which he was to place confidence, 

 they gave him a drink, which is prepared from a kind of tobacco (I do 

 not know the [Spanish] name of this herb) which they call Pibat 

 (they apply this term to all tobacco which is smoked), this they pre- 

 pare by grinding it up, and when it is pulverized they make a cake, 

 mixed with other ingredients, which according to what they have told 

 me are lime and urine. 



To others they gave another [kind of a] drink [prepared] from a 

 plant which is called ToIudcJw, and which they call Mani, and drunken- 

 ness is produced by one of these as much as by the other, in drinking 

 which they shortly lose their senses, and finding themselves deprived 

 of their senses by their drunkenness, they were made to fast 3 or 4 

 days or more (and it is to be noted that their fasts were natural ones, 

 they being given nothing to eat or drink during the entire time that the 

 fast lasted). During this period they continually had by their heads 

 some old men or old women who were preaching to them without 

 letting them rest either day or night, telling them that he [the boy] 

 should take good notice and be watchful, and therefore should not go 

 to sleep, that he might see if the bear, the coyote, the raven, the rattle- 

 snake, etc., were to come, naming over a great many ; if they were to 

 come gentle or angry ; and that from the first animal whom he might 

 see he should ask for what he wanted. The poor unfortunate, in his 

 drunkenness, and without having eaten or drunk for many days, had 

 a thousand visions and deliriums and when he said that he saw this or 

 that one and explained what he had manifested to him, that is, what 

 he was to do for him, he was then given something to eat, so that he 

 would come to himself, and when he was somewhat stronger they be- 

 gan a great dance feast, according to their custom, exhorting him to 

 be very careful not to make angry the one who had appeared to him, 

 and to carry out exactly what he had commanded. 



There were others who did not drink these drinks, and what was 

 done with them was that first they feathered them and painted them 

 well with a kind of soot between black and red color, and adorned in 

 this manner, they carried them to the temple called Vanquex, with 

 many ceremonies. On reaching there, the satraps put him [the boy] at 

 one side of Chinigchinix and in front of him on the ground they painted 

 a figure, the most ridiculous which can be imagined, for it consisted of 



