524 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
Bledos, y otras legumbres, y molianlas con mucha devocion, y recato, y 
deellas amasaban, y formaban la dicha Estatua, del tamano y estatura 
deun Hombre. E] licor, con que se resolbian y desleian aquellas harinas 
era sangre de Ninos, que para este fin se sacrificaban.” ! 
It isremarkable the word ‘maiz ” 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. “Con una Culebra mui grande, y 
gruesa en las manos, tortuosa, y con muchas bueltas, que iba delante, 
levantada en alto, 4 manera de Cruz, en nuestras Procesiones.”? This 
dough idol, he says, was afterwards broken into “ migajas ” (crumbs) 
and distributed among the males only, boys as well as men, and by 
them eaten after the manner of communion; ‘ este era su manera de 
comunion.”* Herrera, speaking of this same idol of Vitzliputzl, 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, ‘4 manera de comunion.” ‘“ Las Doncellas recogidas en el 
templo, dos Dias 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 grandes, verdes, acules, 0 blancas; i por dientes granos 
de maiz. * 
H. H. Bancroft speaks of the festival in honor of Huitzilopochth, 
“the festival of the wafer or cake.” He says: ‘They made a cake of 
the meal of bledos, which is called tzoalli,” which was afterward divided 
in a sort of communion.’ Diego Duran remarks that at this feast the 
chief priest carried an idol of dough called “tzoally,” which is made of 
the seeds of bledos and corn made into a mass with honey.® “Un 
ydolo de masa, de una masa que Ilaman tzoally, la cual se hace de 
semilla de bledos y maiz amasado con miel.” This shows that 
' Monarchia Indiana, vol. 2, lib. 6, cap. 38, p. 71. 
2Tbid., p. 72. 
3Tbid., p. 73. 
4 Dec. 3, lib. 2, pp. 71, 72. 
5 Native Races, vol. 3, p. 323. 
® Diego Duran, vol. 3, p. 187. 
