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I raised a sudden exclamation; for five or six skulls, symmetrically arranged, seemed to glare at me through their empty orbits. "Oh father!" cried Lucien, "are we in a cemetery?" "Yes, my boy; I think this must be a Chichimec burial-place. This nation, which preceded the Toltecs and Aztecs in Mexico, were in the habit of depositing their dead in caverns."
Sahagun, who mentions this fact, adds that the name of this edifice was Teotlalpan, which literally means "on holy ground." Chicomoztoc; "at the Seven Caves," a famous locality in Mexican legend, and the supposed birthplace of their race. Colhuacan is probably for Acolhuacan; the early rulers of the latter were of the blood of the Chichimec chiefs of the Tepanecas.
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