This festival was the most important in Mexico, and took place at the temple or "teocalli," a gigantic, pyramid-like mass of stone, rising in terraces to a height of eighty-six feet above the city, and culminating in a small summit platform upon which the long procession of priests and victims could be seen from all parts of the city. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)
And when we reach the sea we encounter at Suku, in Java, a teocalli which is absolutely identical with that of Tehuantepec. ❋ Ignatius Donnelly (1866)
Able, ruthless and bloodthirsty, Ahuitzotl doubled the size of the Aztec empire and is once said to have ritually slaughtered twenty thousand prisoners at a reconstructed teocalli, or sacrificial "god house." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Then Santiago with a shriek leaped upon me -- shrieked again and, arms flung high, pitched headlong from the teocalli with his own dagger buried to the hilt in his breast. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
About the center of the roof rose a sort of teocalli some ten feet high, almost exactly like those found in Mexico and on which the priests of the Aztecs sacrificed human victims. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
On the teocalli Santiago stood like a statue of black basalt, facing the east, dagger held high -- a wild and terrible sight, naked as he was save for a wide silken girdle and that inhuman mask on his face. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
To the foot of the teocalli I stalked and up the stair that ran about it, until I stood beside the death altar and marked the dark red stains upon it. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
Then the black worshipers were on us with a screech and a roar -- leaping on the steps of the teocalli like black leopards in the moonlight, knives flashing, eyes gleaming whitely. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
It lay undisturbed underground in the great square, close to the very site of the teocalli, until sixty years ago. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
O, vividly do I recall to mind examples of heaven-bestowed genius, talent, health, and abilities, sacrificed on the worse than bloody teocalli of this hideous and slimy devil, Intemperance! ❋ Luther Benson (N/A)
A close examination of its structure in places where the outline is still to some extent preserved, and a comparison of it with better preserved structures of the same kind, make it quite clear that it was a terraced _teocalli_, resembling the drawing called the "Pyramid of Cholula," in Humboldt's ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Upon this the captive chiefs stood in the gladiatorial fights which took place within the space surrounding the great teocalli. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Speaking of the great teocalli of the city of Mexico, he says, quoting an old description, that the Moon had a little temple in the great courtyard, which was built of shells. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Indeed, they did afterwards hear it from their camp a mile or two off, when their unfortunate companions were being sacrificed on the teocalli. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
He moved slowly towards the great teocalli, his fifty thousand Tlascalan allies following him, throwing down every house, and filling the canals with the ruins. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
On the teocalli of the moon we found a number of recent sea-shells, which mystified us extremely; and the only explanation we could give of their presence there was that they might have been brought up as offerings. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Diaz saw when he went up the Mexican teocalli with Cortes, and which he describes as a hellish instrument, made with skins of great serpents; and which, when it was struck, gave a loud and melancholy sound, that could be heard at two leagues 'distance. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
There is a drawing in Lord Kingsborough's work of a _teocalli_ or pyramid at San Andrés Chalchicomula, which we seem to have missed on account of the darkness having come on before we reached the town. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
There is little doubt that this is the famous war-idol which stood on the great teocalli of Mexico, and before which so many thousands of human victims were sacrificed. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
