 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 588 pages
...destroyed it, and filled up the entrance." — PADILLA, p. 643. The Temple Serpe nts.~ XI V. p. 82. " The head of a sacrificed person was strung up ; the...moreover, in that accursed house they kept vipers rfnd venomous snakes, who had something at their tails which sounded like morris-bells, and they are... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 292 pages
...destroyed it, and filled up the entrance." — PADILLA, p. 64S. The. Ttmple Serpents.— XIV. p. 82. " The head of a sacrificed person was strung up ; the limbs eaten at the feast; ti.e body given to the wild beasts which were kept within t:ie temple circuits: moreover, in that ae"cursed... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...filled up the entrance. « — PADILLA, p. 643. Note 4?i Pa0e 247> C°J- *• The temple serpent*. -- The head of a sacrificed person was strung up; the...the wild beasts which were kept within the temple circuit* : moreover, in that accursed house they kept vipers and venomous snakes, who had something... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 228 pages
...the wild beasts which were kept within the precincts of the temple. " Moreover," says Bernal Dias, " in that accursed house they kept vipers and venomous...something at their tails which sounded like morris-bells (rattle-snakes), and these are the worst of vipers. These were kept in cradles and in barrels, and... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 248 pages
...was made of the skin of huge serpents." He also gives a terrific account of their temple serpents. "The head of a sacrificed person was strung up ; the...who had something at their tails, which sounded like morris bells, and they are the worst of all vipers; these were kept in cradles and barrels and earthen... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...which from the shoulders fell, 1 " The head of a sacrificed person was strung up; the limbs e;iten at the feast ; the body given to the wild beasts which were kept within the temple circuit»: moreover, in that accursed house they kept vipers and venomous snakes, who had Romethinj;... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...Priests Approach'd their victim, clad in vestments white Of sacrifice, which from the shoulders fell, 1 " The head of a sacrificed person was strung up ; the limbs eaten at the feast j the bod; given to the wild beasts which were kept within the temple circuits : moreover. In that... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - East Asia - 1850 - 782 pages
...prevailed largely in America. The Mexicans worshipped the more destructive animals, tigers, snakes, &c. "The head of a sacrificed person was strung up; the...the feast; the body given to the wild beasts which wer? kept within the temple circuits ; moreover, in that accursed hou«e they kept vipers and venomous... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - History - 1851 - 294 pages
...Bernal Diaz, living rattlesnakes were kept in the great temple of Mexico as sacred objects. He says: "Moreover, in that accursed house they kept vipers...at their tails which sounded like morris-bells, and these are the worst of vipers. They were kept in cradles and barrels, and in earthen vessels, upon... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 444 pages
...destroyed it, and filled up the entrance." — Padilla, p. 643. The temple serpents. — XIV. p. 288. " The head of a sacrificed person was strung up; the...eaten at the feast; the body given to the wild beasts whichwere kept within the temple circuits. Moreover, in that accursed house they kept vipers and venomous... | |
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The head of a sacrificed person was strung up ; the limbs eaten at the feast; the body given to the wild beasts which were kept within the temple circuits ; moreover, in that accursed house they kept vipers and venomous snakes, who had something at their... 
