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Mexitl was the God of War; the deity the most honored by the Mexicans—Storia Antico del Mexico.
—Francesco Saverio Clavigero, 1780.
To the great and furious war god after whom their land is named, Mexicans again paid costly homage last week—by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own—the fiery blue heaven, where the din of ghastly battle never ceases—this old pagan deity may well...
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