Codex Cihuatlampa
The practices of the order of midwives known as the Cuetlaxtlapatl performed for the Red Cup, whom they honored as the Red Jade Queen.
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When a woman in their care died in childbirth, the Cuetlaxtlapatl ferried her body to the western shores where the Sun spilled its blood to have her drink its reddest hues. They beseeched the Snake-Skirted Mother to let the spirit pass into the higher chambers of the House where the Queen resided, so she could look upon its persistent thirst and reward it rightly.
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‘The Dead are not often afforded the privilege of rising through the ranks of the House, but the Queen has never been one to deny desire. Was it not she who birthed the Witch-and-Sister?’ Though the Codex expounds on the honors granted to the Twins, it denigrates them and their ‘hungers diminished in union’. For this reason, the Cuetlaxtlaptal worked to prevent multiple births; those which occurred were to be culled to one child to prevent the ‘division of blood’.
Effect: Memory: Gossip
Mastery: Lesson: The Great Signs and the Great Scars x2
Aspects
- Mystery: Grail 8
- Written in Nahuatl
- Subject: The Great Signs and the Great Scars
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Noble Retreat