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"She certainly had no fear," said the Corn Woman, "though from the first she must have known "It was when the seed corn was gathered that we had the first hint of trouble," she went on. "When it was ripe the priests and Caciques went into the fields to select the seed for next year. Then it was laid up in the god-houses for the priestess of the Corn to keep.
On the tops of the hills where their god-houses were," explained the Corn Woman seeing that Dorcas was puzzled. "The Sun was their god to them. Every year they gave captives on the hills they built to the Sun." Dorcas had heard the guard explaining to visitors in the Aztec room. "Teocales," she suggested. "That was one of their words," agreed the Corn Woman.
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