Torn Tenochtitlan

Eizi Fukuhara examines obscure accounts of unnatural occurrences during the fall of Tenochtitlan - mass drownings, living fire, scarred beasts, five-winged birds, ravenous bees, gnawing dreams of despair. He argues them to be portents of the later division of the Sun.

I’m Reading…

‘There is always more than one war. As the Triple Alliance was taken hostage, the Long prowled like wolves in its heart-city. At this flawed hinge of Histories, every strike was a sevenfold wound, and every wound gave blood sevenfold, whether it be the Red or the Gold or the Sun’s.’

I’ve Read…

‘Every sacrifice has its precursor, even, or especially, if the precursor is the sacrifice. When blood spills at the hand of another, debts are owed and rarely forgiven. Only death can repay them. But when the heart falls still, the world runs dry, and blood must spill once more.’
Effect: Memory: Fear Mastery: Lesson: Wolf Stories x2

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