Phillips.] 630 [Oet. 19, 
a fight by command of Vichiliutl and Quatliqueci, and conquering him 
offered him up for sacrifice, and buried his heart in a place called Temestd- 
tan, which was a City of Mexico, afterward founded in this place, and the 
head they interred in Tluchitongo. 
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These nine years being passed, they rested likewise twenty-five years 
additional in peace and quiet, Vichiliutl governing them, and they built 
on the hill of Ohapultepeque a grand temple to Vehilogos ; and while they 
were here, the Mexican aborigines, who were all Chichimecas, joined them- 
selves together and assaulted them, and sat down-their camp to besiege 
them near to the southward of Chapultepeque, and when night came 
on they fell upon the Mexicans and slew them, so that but few 
escaped by flight and took refuge among the canebrakes and recesses of 
the lagoon which was near by ; and they burnt the temple which had 
been built, and the people of Caléoca captured the two daughters of Vehi- 
Wutl, and carried them away captive ; and also was Vehiliutl taken priso- 
ner, and the men of Culwacan slew him after he was captured ; and those 
who fled and escaped were hidden for eighty days in the canebrakes, and 
ate nothing but herbs and vipers, and they bore with them Vehilogos 
being (here occurs apparently a lacuna in the MS.). 
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We have told how the heart of Qopil, the son of the woman who went 
to Mechuacan* was interred at Tinustitan, and the reason why was that one 
day when Coautliqueegt was standing beneath a hut built of branches 
there appeared before him Vehilogos, and ordered him to bury the heart in 
that place, for in that place was to be his home, and he went there for 
that reason, and was buried there. 
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When all the aforesaid had taken place, the Mexicans who had been in 
hiding among the canebrakes and herbage were driven out by the great 
hunger they felt, and came to Oulwacan to seek for food ; and they told the 
people of that place when they reached there that they had come to serve 
them, that they should not slay them, and they prayed to Veddlogos, for 
him to give his orders that they should not be put to death ; and they gave 
to the men of Culuacan the plume and the staft of Vehdlogos, and re- 
mained in their service. In these days Achitomel was lord of Culuacan, 
and Ohalchiutlatonac the chieftain, and they had a very fine temple in 
which the people of Oulwacan celebrated a feast to Qiguacoatl, the wife 
of the god of the infernal regions, whom the people of Oulwacan reverenced 
as their especial god. 
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For the space of twenty-five years the Mexicans remained under the 
dominion of the people of Culuwacan during which time the people of Cul- 
* Mechoacan, El tierra de pescado (Garcia, v, 825). 
