Do you know the different ranks of the Mexican priesthood?
The Florentine Codex is a document created especially for the King Carlos V and was overseen by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, written thanks to the tales of survivors of the conquest. The document represents in a pictographic nature the culture, society, customs and history of the Mexica people, a valuable document in the studies of ancient Mexico.
In this document, the different ranks that existed among the Mexica priests are described:
“The ranks, by which one would rise, were as follows: the first was called tlacamazto, an acolyte; the second was called tlamacazquj, a deacon; the third, they called him tlenamacac, a priest. From these priests, the best ones were considered as supreme pontiffs and they were called ‘quequetzalcoa’, which means heirs of Quetzalcoatl”.
Based on this information, we have another WIP variant of what a Tlamacazqui or a deacon could be, based on the Durán Codex, where the priests are offering human hearts to a giant image of the god Mictlantecuhtli.
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