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Bit pleased as she translated the offering of the Fat Chief. Her face grew even tenser when the chief named Cuesco offered his own daughter to Puertocarrero. And he accepted. I couldn't believe it. After all that talk about possibly losing Marina to Cortés and now he does this? Strange apartamente de vanzare bucuresti guy. Cuesco's daughter was probably sixteen and she had several other young girls accompany her as maids. Puertocarrero was given ownership of them as well. Lord, these seven women are for your captains, the Fat Chief said to Cortés. And this one, who is my niece, is for you. She is the mistress of many towns and vassals. apartamente de vanzare bucuresti I'm not sure what that meant. Unlike some of the other girls, the Fat Chief's niece was not cute in the least. Her calves were as wide as her head and her teeth were jacked up, pointing in a hundred directions like signs on one of those international city distance posts. We thank you for these gifts, Chief Chicomacatl, but before we can accept these women they must be baptized in Jesus's name by our priest Father Olmedo. Then you, Cortés pointed straight at the Fat Chief, must abandon your stone idols. For when I see those cursed things thrown down to the ground and the sacrifices put to an end, then and only then will our bonds of brotherhood be solid. His voice grew stronger and sterner with each syllable. The Fat apartamente de vanzare bucuresti Chief appeared to actually shrink as Cortés grew in stature. Each day since we had been there, the Cempoallans had sacrificed three or four Indians at the top of their temple. Their hearts were pulled out like pumpkin innards, warm and pulsing. Their blood splattered and smeared across the inner walls of their temples like abstract meat paintings. Sometimes they'd hack off the arms and legs of the victims and cook them, eating the roasted muscle as part of their endless religious festivals. Do you not also eat your own god? Marina asked me after she heard me complaining about the sacrifices. You mean the communion? I thought about that for moment. When the natives made their sacrifices, the men and women being slaughtered were somehow transformed into the gods to whom they were being sacrificed. apartamente de vanzare bucuresti They became a representation of their gods, similar to communion or transubstantiation. Father Olmedo could only sigh when I first asked him what the difference was. You must also give up your practice of grotesque sodomy, Cortés commanded of the Fat Chief, for apartamente de vanzare bucuresti it is an abomination before God. The Cempoallans had several teenage boys roaming about the village dressed up as girls and offering themselves as entertainment to anyone willing to pay. This was a practice detested by the Spaniards possibly more than human sacrifice. You surrender these practices, said Cortés, and we will be brothers before Christ. And you will also be given additional provinces to apartamente rule over. After Marina translated the General's demands of them, the chiefs discussed their opinions intently amongst themselves for several minutes. Once they had come to a decision the Fat Chief spoke. It would be wrong for us to turn our backs on our gods, he began, his thick tongue making his voice sound as heavy as he looked. They have provided such rich fortune for us. Health, harvest, sons and daughters. All that we need they have given to us. We cannot forsake them for another god we know little about. Regarding the question of the boys dressed as girls, however, we will see that the practice is stopped. Again, Cortés nearly lost his