The Cheek Perforation Dance. Sean Thomas
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Название: The Cheek Perforation Dance
Автор: Sean Thomas
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9780007485420
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Further praise for The Cheek Perforation Dance:
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Irish Independent
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Arena
‘Distressingly believable.’
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For us, then
The fourteenth Veintana, Quecholli, was dedicated to Mixcoatl. The feast was celebrated by one or two days of hunting and feasting in the countryside during which the hunters adorned themselves like Mixcoatl himself and kindled new fire to roast the game. Subsequently, a man and a woman were sacrificed to Mixcoatl in his temple. The female victim was slain like a wild animal: her head was struck four times against a rock until she was half-conscious; then her throat was slit and her head decapitated. The male victim displayed the head to the assembled crowds before he himself was sacrificed by heart extrusion.
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