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"The dagger, caked in the dried blood of innumerable sacrifices to the every hungry Huitzilopotchli so that it scarcely retained the shape of a blade at all, seemed to exude a preternatural stench of death and corruption."
Superhero Prose Fiction: Flashing Swords - Flashing Swords Magazine 3 2 The White Wyrm Blue Tyson 2008
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"The dagger, caked in the dried blood of innumerable sacrifices to the every hungry Huitzilopotchli so that it scarcely retained the shape of a blade at all, seemed to exude a preternatural stench of death and corruption."
Superhero Prose Fiction: Flashing Swords - Flashing Swords Magazine 3 Blue Tyson 2008
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Huitzilopotchli, the war-god, down among the people in the streets below.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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At the head of these stood one, infinite, supreme ruler, "the unknown God," and next beneath him came Tezcatlipoca, the "son of the world," supposed to be the creator of the earth, Huitzilopotchli was the god of war, a sort of Mars, but with very much more name.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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Mexitli -- or as he is generally called, Huitzilopotchli -- is of course the greatest everywhere; but he is worshiped most of all by the Aztecs.
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_teocalli_ of Mexico, dedicated to the fearful deity, _Huitzilopotchli_, he shall be offered up as a sacrifice, according to the awful customs in which he affects to disbelieve.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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At the dedication of the great temple for Huitzilopotchli, just thirty years ago, seventy thousand captives were put to death. "
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