The Institution of Slave-Bathing
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v7i0.81-92Abstract
Informaciones acerca de los "esclavos lavados" en relatos como los de Sahagún, Durán y Torquemada subrayan las actividades de ciertos traficantes de Tenochtitlan quienes "lavaban" o "purificaban" esclavos para sacrificarlos al dios que representaban. Estos no eran cautivos extranjeros sino naturales de los pueblos en donde se celebraban las ceremonias. Aunque dichos mercaderes figuraban más conspicuamente, de hecho les imitaban varias otras agrupaciones sociales en el pueblo náhuatl. A causa de su origen, sus atavíos y su presentación al público, probablemente el sacrificio de los "esclavos lavados" importaba más al pueblo que el de los más numerosos cautivos.Downloads
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1982-01-01
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