voladores-baptism

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A depiction of Spanish priests watching the Voladores ceremony while baptizing Indian children in the Aztec Codex Azcatitlan, drawn between 1550 and 1590.

voladores-ritual

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Illustration of the Voladores ritual on the title page of chapter 78 of Historia de la Nación Chichimeca, written and drawn by Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl in 1640.

arrow-sacrifice-7

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Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, a codex made between 1550 and 1560 depicting an Arrow Sacrifice taking place in Cholula

arrow-sacrifice-6

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A scene of the Arrow Sacrifice in the Telleriano-Remensis Aztec Codex from around 1550.

arrow-sacrifice-4-5

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Another scene from the Fernández Leal Codex, showing the Voladores and the Arrow Sacrifice.

arrow-sacrifice-3

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The Voladores ceremony and the Arrow Sacrifice being played out on page 6 of the Fernández Leal Codex, a codex copied around 1540 from an earlier, pre-Colombian version from San Lorenzo Papalo, Oaxaca.

medieval-cruise

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Cruise ship” passengers beginning their “shore excursion” in the Holy land from Sir John Maudevile’s 15th century book.

dwarf-mushroom

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photo of a dwarf figurine and a amanita muscaria mushroom

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