Hittorie of the Indies lib. 5. 



but they had goddeffcs alfo, as the Fables of Poets 

 have brought in, and the blind gentility of the Gmkes 

 and Jto;4tfj worfhipt them. The chiefe goddcflc they 

 worfhipt was called Tofy which is to fay, our granmo- 

 ther, who as the Hiftories of Mexico report, was daugh 

 ter to the king of Culhuac*n^ who was the firft they flca- 

 ed by the commaundemen t of Pit^putel^whom they 

 (acrificed in this fort, being his fifter, and then they be- 

 ganne to flea men in their facrificcs , and to clothe the 

 IMng withthcskinnesofthc faaificed , having learn 

 ed that their gods were pleafed therewith, as alfo to p.ul 

 the hearts out of them they [acrificed, which they lear 

 ned of their god, who pulled out the hearts of fuch as 

 he puniflied in Tutta, as fhall be feyd in his place . One 

 of thefe god jeffes they worfhipt had a fbnne, who -was 

 a^great hunter, whome they of Ttifcalla afterward es 

 tooke for a god , and thofe were enneiTiies to the Mex- 

 icdims 3 by whofe ayde the Spaw'ardes wonne Mextw. 

 The province ofTlafcal/a is very fit for hunting,and the 

 people are much given therevnto. They theif ore made 

 % great firaft vnto this idoll,whom they painted of fuch 

 a forme,as it is not now needeftill to loofe any time in 

 the dcfcription thereof . The feaft they made was plea- 

 fcnt, and in this fort : They founded a Trumpet at the 

 breake of dny , at the found whereof they all afTcmblcd 

 with their bowes 3 arrows, netts, and other inftrumenrs 

 for hunting : then they went in proceflion with rheyr 

 idbll , being followed by a great number of pf 6'ple to 

 a high mountayne , vpon the toppe whereof they had 

 made a bovver of leaves, and in the middeft thereof an 

 Altare richly deckt , where-vpon they placed theidoll. 

 They r/iarched with a great bruit of Trumpettes , Cor- 

 ^FlUtes and Drummes , and being come vr,to the 



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