the whole of the night preceding the festival. Day having dawned, all the priests assumed their ornaments, and partook in a solemn dance, all those who assisted carrying in their hands flowers called cempoalxochitl. Dancing all the way, they brought several captives to the temple of Tlaloc, in the midst of whom walked the woman who was to die, dressed as the image of Uixtociuatl. Before she was sacrificed, the captives were first put to death.37
“Several other ceremonies were conducted during this festival and there were frequent scenes of debauchery.”
NATURE AND STATUS
The interpreter of Codex Telleriano-Remensis states that Yxcuina, as he names the goddess, was the protector of adulterers and “the goddess of salt and of dissolute persons.” He further relates that they put adulterers