From Book III of the Florentine Codex : You  have brought yourself to the place of mystery, the place of the  unfleshed, the place where there is arriving, the place with no smoke  hole, the place with no fireplace. No longer will you make your way  back, your return. No more will you consider your present, your past.  For a little while you have gone leaving orphans, you have gone leaving  people, your children, your grandchildren. I  remember that they had in a plaza, where there were some shrines, so  many places of dead skulls, which could be counted, according to the  concert as they were set, that when they appeared they would be more  than one hundred thousand; and I say again about one hundred thousand.  And in another part of the square were as many rows of bones without  meat, bones of dead, that could not be counted; and they had in many  beams many heads hanging from one part to another. And keeping those  bones and skulls were three priests, who, as we understood, were in ...