Keyword: Mexico
Giant snake eats a lion while a man is attacked by beasts with sharp teeth. Includes the bodies of other victims or sacrifices. Description of a temple in the Yucatan discovered by Francisco Fernandez de Córdoba and Cristobal Morantes. The temple is described as being a theater of marble with huge figures carved on the top. People were daily executed within the bars and their bodies thrown down on the ground below (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 73
John Carter Brown Library
Goods for the Sacrifice during Gacitocoztli Feast [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 32r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Humans Sacrificed in the Fire and on the Pyramid [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 40r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Interior of a temple with an idol which has horns and faces on its chest. Also includes torches and lamps. Includes a scene of sacrifice, bones or skeleton, knife, and European soldiers. (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 82
John Carter Brown Library
Martyrdom of Fray Francisco Lopez who stands before a group of native Americans who have shot him and six other Franciscans with arrows. The other Franciscans are Juan de Padilla, Antonio de Cuellar, Alois de Villa[lobos], Pedro Burgos, Francisco Donzelis, and Juan Serrano (1625)
from: Marianus, de Orscelar, Gloriosus Franciscus rediuiuus siue Chronica observantae strictioris ... eiusdemque per Christianos orbes, non solùm, sed & Americam, Peru, ... Indos Orientis, Ingolstadt, Wilhelmi Ederi, 1625, p. 330
John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Native Americans [?] sacrifice children on an altar. Includes priests with knives who place the infants on a pyre. (1662)
from: Schultze, Gottfried, De nieuwe bereysde wereldt, Iohannes Tongerloo, La Hague, 1662, frontespiece
The John Carter Brown Library
Ritual Feast with Human Linbs offered to a God [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 73r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Ritual Human Sacrifice [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 70r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Ritual Sacrifice during a Fight [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 18r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Sacrifice of an Aztec [1562]
from: Codex Telleriano - Remensis
Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris
Sacrifice of an Aztec [1562]
from: Codex Telleriano - Remensis
Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris
Sacrifices for the Dead [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 72r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Scene of worship and human sacrifice at a native American or Mexican temple (1691)
from: Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneira, Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, Paris, Boudot, 1691. p. 275
Travel to Japan and Martyrdom of San Felipe de Jesus (1628-1697)
Cuernavaca Cathedral, south of Mexico City
Venerable María del Refugio Aguilar Torres (portrait) (20th Century)
Real Monasterio El Puig De Santa María, Order of Mercy. El Puig, Valencia (Spain)
Vizlipuztli Idolum Mexicanorum (Huitzilopochtli Mexican Deity) (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671
Borgia Codex
: , [1476] - [1500].
Codex Magliabecchiano
: , [1526] - [1550].