mother-race

Updated: November 4, 2024

As for the flesh, it was indeed only some of that "one flesh" of which we all are made; but the blood to go into finer distinctions the blood, as distinguished from the milk of her Alibamon foster-mother, was the blood of the royal caste of the great Toltec mother-race, which, before it yielded its Mexican splendors to the conquering Aztec, throned the jeweled and gold-laden Inca in the South, and sent the sacred fire of its temples into the North by the hand of the Natchez.

George Washington Cable - The Grandissimes