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Uixtocihuatl
Uixtocihuatl AmericaIn June the Aztec women celebrated the festival of Uixtocihuatl, ‘the salt goddess’. Old women and young girls danced together wearing flowers on their heads, the climax of the ceremony being a human sacrifice at the pyramid of Tlaloc, the rain god.
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