Sacrifice (Quetzalcoatl)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) Rain poured across the stone steps of your temple, the rain harsh enough to bounce across the stone and plentiful enough to soak into every single crack that had formed within its stone visage although it was not enough to wash the blood of sacrifice off itself. You had lost count of just how many men, women and children had dragged up those stairs, placed onto the stone table resting at the top before having their hearts carved out of their body and collected by the Gods, who granted Tenochtitlan with the bounties needed to keep surviving. You had watched several of these sacrifices, watching as the life extinguished from the eyes of those laying upon the table, the blood pooling up is their chest as their heart was held aloft, shining in the light of the fire around you. However, every time that you had gone up those steps you never thought that it could be your children who wo...