 ... the sacred images of the presiding deities. Before these towers stood the dreadful stone of sacrifice, and two lofty altars, on which fires were kept, as inextinguishable as those in the temple of Vesta. There were said to be six hundred of these...  Stories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru - Página 42por William Dalton - 1872 - 499 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1843 - 538 páginas
...Vesta. There were said to be six hundred of these altars, on smaller buildings within the inclosure of the great temple of Mexico, which, with those on the sacred edifices in other parts of the city, sbed a brilliant illumination over its streets, through the darkest night.80 From the construction... | |
 | 1854 - 744 páginas
...those in the temple of Vesta. There were said to be six hundred of these altars, in smaller buildings within the enclosure of the great temple of Mexico,...illumination over its streets, through the darkest nights. " ' From the construction of their temples, all religious services were public. The long processions... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 páginas
...of more than a hundred feet. There were said to be six hundred altars, or smaller buildings, within the great Temple of Mexico, which, with those on the...illumination over its streets through the darkest night." The great teocallis of Mexico was divided into five stories or bodies, each one receding so... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1852 - 436 páginas
...those in the temple of Vesta. There were said to be six hundred of these altars, in smaller buildings within the enclosure of the great temple of Mexico,...illumination over its streets, through the darkest nights. " From the construction of their temples, all religious services were public. The long processions... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 562 páginas
...altars, in smaller buildings within the enclosure of the * Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, ip 72, aqq. great temple of Mexico, which, with those on the sacred...illumination over its streets, through the darkest nights. "From the construction of their temples, all religious services were public. The long processions of... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 560 páginas
...altars, in smaller buildings within the enclosure of the * Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, ip 12, sqq. great temple of Mexico, which, with those on the sacred edifices in other parts of the/city, shod a brilliant illumination over its streets, through the darkest nights. " From the construction... | |
 | Samuel Fales Dunlap - 1858 - 450 páginas
...19. Squier, Serp. Symb. 112. ' J. Mullcr, 54. Squier, ibid. 118. ' Ibid. 162. 10 J. Muller, 320, 388. on the sacred edifices in other parts of the city,...illumination over its streets through the darkest night,' And the altars of all our city-guarding gods, of those above and those below, god.s of heaven... | |
 | William Dalton - 1862 - 556 páginas
...of these altars within tho enclosure of the givut temple of Mexico, which, with those on the suored edifices in other parts of the city, shed a brilliant...revolting rites so frequently celebrated beneath their rnys. I would gladly avoid any further description of these abominations; but to do so would be to... | |
 | William Linton - 1862 - 174 páginas
...to be six hundred of these altars on smaller buildings within the enclosure of the great 1 Prescott. temple of Mexico ; which with those on the sacred...illumination over its streets through the darkest night. From the construction of their temples, all religious services were public. The long processions... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1873 - 536 páginas
...those in the temple of Vesta. There were said to be six hundred of these altars, on smaller buildings within the enclosure of the great temple of Mexico,...illumination over its streets, through the darkest night.21 From the construction of their temples, all religious services were public. The long processions... | |
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