524 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



Bleclos, y otras legumbres, y molianlas con nmclia devocion, y rccato, y 

 deellas amasaban, y formabaii la dicha Estatiia, del tainaiio y ostatura 

 de uu Hombrc. Kl licor, con qne se resolbian y dcsle ian aquellas harinas 

 era sangre de Xifios, qne para este flu se sacrirtcaban.&quot; 



It is remarkable the word &quot;maiz &quot; does not occur in this paragraph. 

 Huitzlipotchli being the God of War, it was natural that the ritual 

 devoted to his service should conserve some, if not all, of the foods, 

 grains, and seeds used by the Mexicans when on the warpath in the 

 earliest days of their history; and that this food should be made into a 

 dough with the blood of children sacrificed as a preliminary to success 

 is also perfectly in accordance with all that we know of the mode of 

 reasoning of this and other primitive peoples. Torquemada goes on to 

 say that this statue was carried in solemn procession to the temple 

 and idol of Huitzlipotchli and there adorned with precious jewels 

 (chalchihuitl), embedded in the soft mass. Afterward it was carried to 

 the temple of the god Paynalton, preceded by a priest carrying a 

 snake in the manner that the priests in Spain carried the cross in the 

 processions of the church. &quot;Con una Culebra inui grande, y 

 gruesa en las manos, tortuosa, y con muchas bueltas, que iba delante, 

 levantada en alto, (i inanera de Cruz, en nuestras Procesiones.&quot; 2 _T-his 

 dough idol, he says, was afterwards broken into &quot; migajas &quot; (crumbs) 

 and distributed among the males only, boys as well as men, and by 

 them eaten after the manner of communion ; &quot; este era su nianera de 

 comunion.&quot; 3 Herrera, speaking of this same idol of Vitzliputzli, as he 

 calls him, says it was made by the young women of the temple, of the 

 flour of bledos and of toasted maize, with honey, and that the eyes 

 were of green, white, or blue beads, and the, teeth of grains of corn. 

 After the feast was over, the idol was broken up and distributed to the 

 faithful, &quot; a nianera de comuuiou.&quot; &quot; Las Doncellas recogidas en el 

 templo, dos Bias antes de la Fiesta, amasaban harina de Bledos, i de 

 Maiz tostado, con miel, y de la masa hacian un Idolo grande, con los 

 ojos de cuentas graudes, verdes, ac, ules, 6 blancas ; i por dientes granos 

 de maiz. * 



H. H. Bancroft speaks of the festival in honor of Huitzilopochtli, 

 &quot;the festival of the wafer or cake.&quot; He says: &quot; They made a cake of 

 the meal of bledos, which is called tzoalli,&quot; which was afterward divided 

 in a sort of communion. 5 Diego Duran remarks that at this feast the 

 chief priest carried an idol of dough called &quot;tzoally,&quot; which is made of 

 the seeds of bledos and corn made, into a mass with honey. 6 &quot;Un 

 ydolo de masa, de una masa que Hainan tzoally, la cual se hace de 

 semilla de bledos v maiz amasado con miel.&quot; This shows that 



1 ilonarchiu Indiana, vol. 2, lib. 6, cap. 38. p. 71. 



Ibid., p. 72. 



Ibid., p. 73. 



Dec. 3, lib. 2, pp. 71, 72. 



6 Native Kacos, vol. 3, p. 323. 



5 Diejjo Duran, vol. 3, p. 187. 



