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Updated: June 10, 2025
'O maidens of Anahuac, said the man speaking from the darkness, 'and you, O Tezcat, god among the gods, listen to my words.
Then with his own hand, he put the chain about my throat, and the cloak upon my shoulders, and having humbly bent the knee before me as though in adoration, he cast his arms about me and embraced me. 'Hail! most blessed, he said, 'divine son of Quetzal, holder of the spirit of Tezcat, Soul of the World, Creator of the World.
I have given my message, is it your pleasure that I should go? The solemn ceremony of wedlock will be on the twelfth day from now, O Tezcat. Now I rose from my seat and took her hand, saying: 'I thank you, Otomie, for your nobleness of mind. Had it not been for the comfort and friendship which you and Guatemoc your cousin have given me, I think that ere now I should be dead.
The voice paused, then spoke again: 'Women, in your own divine names of Xochi, Xilo, Atla, and Clixto, and in the name of all the gods, I wed you to Tezcat, the creator, to sojourn with him during his stay on earth. The god incarnate takes you in marriage whom he himself created, that the symbol may be perfect and the mystery fulfilled.
'Why not, princess? I answered. 'If I had no respect for rank, surely beauty must claim it. 'A truce to words, she replied with a wave of her slim hand. 'I come here, O Tezcat, according to the ancient custom, because I am charged with a message to you. Those whom you shall wed are chosen. I am the bearer of their names. 'Speak on, princess of the Otomie.
One by one they drew near to me, smiling and sighing, and kneeling before me kissed my hand, saying: 'I have been chosen to be your wife for a space, Tezcat, happy maid that I am. May the good gods grant that I become pleasing to your sight, so that you may love me as I worship you. Then she who had spoken would draw back again out of earshot, and the next would take her place.
For this it was that they did sacrifice, offering their own children on the altars of Huitzel and of Tezcat. And the Spaniards themselves, who in the name of mercy have wrought cruelties greater than any that were done by the benighted Aztecs, who in the name of Christ daily violate His law to the uttermost extreme, say shall they prosper, shall their evil-doing bring them welfare?
"O God of Cathay!" he cried, "by what death shall these die these miserable ones who would bind thine Empire, which is boundless!" Like some priest of Tezcat he stood, his eyes upraised to the roof, his lean body quivering a sight to shock the most unimpressionable mind. "He is mad!" I whispered to Smith. "God help us, the man is a dangerous homicidal maniac!"
* For the history of the resurrection of Papantzin, see note to Jourdanet's translation of Sahagun, page 870. Now some months passed between the date of my naming as the god Tezcat and the entry of the Spaniards into Mexico, and during all this space the city was in a state of ferment.
O Tezcat, you have dwelt with us but a little while, and now you will not suffer that we hold you longer from your glory, for your eyes have longed to see this happy day, and it is come at last.
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