The crowd rushes the woman, drags her into the nearby and once-sacred Incalithlon pyramid and tears her still-beating heart from her now bare chest with a dagger, tossing it into the Unfed Light’s quavering spade as her body is torn limb from limb, her flesh divided among the throng of people and consumed, her blood mixed with liquor and drunk by mad priests during these penultimate dark chapters of the Atlantean saga; a fate many captives of the Aztecs would be familiar with at the top of their pyramidal temples, whose living sacrifice through the tearing out of their still-beating hearts with an obsidian knife was said to appease the god Huitzilopochtli lest he “stop time.”
The Codices Boturini and Aubin recount how the Mexica initially called themselves Aztecs in homage to Aztlan but adopted the name Mexica upon settling in the Valley of Mexico under the guidance of the deity Huitzilopochtli.
The Aztecs' migration was guided by their god Huitzilopochtli.
Huitzilopochtli is portrayed as a deity and a historical figure leading the Aztecs.
It was only with the coming of the savage Aztecs that the harmless Mexican ritual was supplemented with the blood of human sacrifices, which drenched the altars of their war-god, Huitzilopochtli, and the tearing out of the hearts of the victims on the summit of the Teocali may be regarded as a direct survival of the elemental-worship of their Turanian ancestors in Atlantis.
Huitzilopochtli and the Battle of the Gods:
Transition: Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war, fought and defeated his siblings, the stars and the moon, establishing himself as the primary deity.
Result: The dominance of Huitzilopochtli symbolized the establishment of cosmic order and the importance of the sun in Aztec cosmology.
Coyolxauhqui — Aztec moon goddess, sister of the sun god Huitzilopochtli.
Huitzilopochtli: The Aztec god of the Sun and war in Aztec mythology.