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Aztec Empire
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  • The stadium itself, two white concrete banks of seats, was as powerful and alien to me as an Aztec ruin, filled with the traces of vanished people and vanished rites, of supreme emotions and supreme tragedies.†  (source)
  • So, there's Arnold Jones, held up by all these hands, flopping and kicking and shrieking like some poor Aztec human sacrifice about to be tossed off a pyramid.†  (source)
  • Little Aztec hearts.†  (source)
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  • Anthony Blanche's description was peculiarly apt; he had the Flyte face, carved by an Aztec.†  (source)
  • You have to wonder why we Americans don't worship this plant as the Aztecs did.†  (source)
  • I have this vague memory that Huitzilopoctli is some kind of Aztec god.†  (source)
  • That's how the Aztecs described Cortes and the conquistadors when they arrived at Tenochtitlan.†  (source)
  • Directly in front rise two huge pyramids — the pre-Aztec metropolis of Teotihuacan.†  (source)
  • They're ugly as Aztecs.†  (source)
  • Then you go to the wilderness and become undone, lapsing into babble, eating mushroom caps that implode your brain, that make you preternaturally aware and afraid, turn you into an Aztec bird.†  (source)
  • What about the Aztecs?†  (source)
  • The sun was beautiful on her blue-black hair and on her Aztec brow, and gathered in a dark, glinting pool at the hollow of her throat.†  (source)
  • Everyone understood that, from the early Egyptians, to the Celtic Druids, to the Chinese, to the Aztecs.†  (source)
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