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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



inflantly have been opprefled by the multitude ; upoa 

 which the father returned inconfolable to his refidence 

 to bewail his difafter the remainder of his life. His un- 

 fortunate daughter was created goddefs and honorary 

 mother, not only of Huitzilopochtli, but of all their gods ; 

 which is the exadt meaning of Teteoinan^ by which name 

 ihe was afterwards known and worfliipped. Such were 

 the fpecimens in this new city of that barbarous fyftem 

 of religion,^which we fliall hereafter explain. 



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