Author: Graham Hancock

Cites

• Colin McEwan López Luján, Leonardo (1)
  • IN: War God: Nights of the Witch (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “The Mexica… never at any point referred to themselves, or their city states, let alone their empire as “Aztec”… At the time of the Spanish conquest they were [rightly] referred to by the Spanish as “Mexica” - hence the name for modern Mexico.’
    FROM: Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler, (2009), NULL, Mexico
• Diego Duran (1)
  • IN: War God: Nights of the Witch (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘The Mexica were the cruellest and most devilish people that can be imagined.’
    FROM: The History of the Indies of New Spain, (1581), NULL, Spain
• NULL (1)
  • IN: War God: Nights of the Witch (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘Take care that they do not escape… Feed them well; let them be fat and desirable for sacrifice on the day of the feast of our god. Let our god rejoice in them since they belong to him’
    FROM: Priestly regulations, c. 1519, for securing and preparing victims for sacrifice in the Mexica capital city of Tenochtitlan, (1519), NULL, Mexico