An Aztec priest removes a man's heart in a human sacrifice

An Aztec priest removes a man's heart in a ritual with an obsidian knife on a sacrificial stone and offers it to the god Huitzilopochtli. Several young acolytes hold down the victim. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843

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