For all the fear and loathing the rulers instilled ... tributary goods for Tenochtitlan and victims for the gods. The first rule of Aztec dominion was well in place by the time Ahuitzotl acquired ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women ... the highest heaven of all. Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided to place them ...

It all came into focus pretty quickly ... This year, mine started in the kitchen How French marionettes, Aztec god-dogs ...