[Aztlan] Whirlpools/Pantitlan

[D. M. Urquidi]

Kim:

It seems to me that I remember reading about that whirlpool. It had a row of stakes in front or around it and children were brought to it in a canoe as sacrifices to Tlaloc. If the children cried a lot, it was a good omen.

I think it was in this book:  Horcasitas, G. & Heyden, D. (1971) 
Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press

Somewhere I got the idea that these children were drugged and sent into the whirlpool and they emerged in Texcoco safely to become "sacred" priests and priestess. It was sort of a hazing ceremony. Don't know where I got that. It is not official info of any sort, but based on another whirlpool that a plaque with a plea to a god was sent through 

D. M. Urquidi
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--- On Thu, 4/2/09, kim Goldsmith <kiminmexico at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: kim Goldsmith <kiminmexico at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Whirlpools/Pantitlan
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:32 PM
> Hi All!
> 
> This really doesn't have to do with hurricanes, but the
> hurricane thread brought something up in my mind that I have
> been wondering about for years.
> 
> Somewhere I read that the Mexica used to canoe out into the
> lake in the Pantitlan area and throw offerings into
> "whirlpools" at a certain spot.  Does anybody know
> what would happen to things thrown into a whirlpool?  Would
> they stay at the bottom and gradually get silted over, or
> would undercurrents spread them to different areas of the
> lake?
> 
> The reason I ask is because I have always hoped that maybe
> somewhere out there near Pantitlan there are some
> interesting caches waiting to be stumbled upon.
> 
> Thanks ahead of time for your input!
> 
> KIM
> 
> 
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