Esoterically, ice is spiritual fire.
Reëntering their houses, the populace took their canapas[[15]] which were the same as the Roman titular deities, and hastened to a great funeral pyre already smoking in front of the Temple of Saturn.
Since fire was the substance of the sun, and since the sun’s ray was the medium through which Deity contacted the earth, the devotees did not venture near it without prostrating themselves, kissing the earth, and making manifestations of abasement.
The worshipers made low obeisance to the four cardinal points, and threw cassia, cinnamon, sweet calamus and myrrh into the flames. Braving the heat, they held the canapas in the smoke until the figures warmed perceptibly, then wrapped them in linen scorched by the fire, and ran back to their houses.
It was no longer possible to summon them to the temples by ringing the big bell on top of the Observatory, as the tower still lay in ruins; so they waited for the trumpet-call.
Incense was burned on the sacrificial altars, and a pot-pourri of resinous gums was carried in the hand, in alabaster or jeweled boxes, along with palm branches, which indicated a new period of manifestation of matter.
A procession issued from the western gate of the Temple of the Sun, in the center of Tlamco. First came a troop of warrior-priests with spears held upright and garlanded with roses.
The next was Yermah, robed in cloth of gold, with a white linen mantle over his shoulder. His head was bared, and he had submitted to tonsure as a sacred observance.
The Azes considered the human head a magnet, having a natural electrical, irregular circle, moving in the path of the sun.
The os-frontis, sinciput, and os-sublime are the positive pole, while the occiput is the negative.