[848] Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 90; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix., tom. ii., cap. li.
[849] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 521; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 321. Camargo indicates that the bodies were thrown upon the same pyre together with the presents. Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., p. 202. 'Sacándoles los corazones, y la sangre de ellos en una batea ó gran xícara, con la cual rociavan á Huitzilopochtli, á quien le presentaron los corazones de todos los muertos.' Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 90.
[850] Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 309; Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 370; Tezozomoc, ubi sup.
[851] 'La colocaron en el mismo lugar en que ardió la pira.' Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 9. This author says that the mouth-stone of the deceased together with the mask, robes, and ornaments were taken off before the body was placed upon the pyre; this could only have been for the purpose of dressing the wooden statue therein; the stone was, however, placed inside the urn. Ixtlilxochitl, ubi sup. Brasseur de Bourbourg calls this bundle of bones tlaquimilolli, which he says was sacredly preserved, whether of kings or braves. Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1858, tom. clx., p. 268. In the case of Nauhyotl of Culhuacan, the bones were exhumed and placed in a statue, which was made in his honor, and deposited in a temple consecrated to him. Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix.
[852] 'Al cuarto dia, al anochecer, cargaron los sacerdotes la arca de las cenizas y la estatua, y la colocaron en una especie de nicho, dentro del templo.' Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 10. 'Sous le pavé même du sanctuaire, devant la statue du dieu.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 574. Duran mentions that the ashes of one king were deposited at the foot of the stone of sacrifice. Hist. Indias, MS., tom. ii., cap. li.; Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 142; Cortés, Cartas, p. 106; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. li.
[853] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., pp. 72, 87; Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt ii., pp. 15-16.
[854] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. vii., p. 257.
[855] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 316, 331; Bologne, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., pp. 213-14; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., pp. 192, 202.
[856] 'La muerte se hacian enterrar en la más alta grada, é despues el subcessor subia otras dos gradas.' Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 503. 'Los Príncipes necesitaban de gran sepultura, porque se llevaban tras sí la mayor parte de sus riquezas y familia.' Solis, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. i., p. 432. 'Io aiutai a cauar d'vna sepoltura tre mila Castigliani poco piu ò meno.' Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 310.
[857] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., p. 141; Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 327; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., p. 189.