Huitzilopochtli Needs Sustenance

Huitzilopochtli Priest Axoctal knows that the Sun & War God needs to be fed daily to keep the world safe. To supply Huitzilopochtli's needs the Aztecs constantly war with their neighbors for the human sacrifices needed to feed their god the most precious commodity in the World-human life,

Axoctal is an old 1970's Grenadier metal piece.

Blood for the Gods Gives them Life

Two Mexica-Aztec priests, Yaretzi and Xoctili, present the heart of their latest victim to the gods.

Aztec priests know that without the most precious of sacrifices, Human Blood, the gods will wither away and die. Therefore, only human sacrifices can save the World from the chaos and destruction the deaths of the gods would bring.

While every god needs human blood, some only require the sacrifice once a year.

Other, greater deities require a greater amount of human blood to prevent the destruction of the World. For those Gods, Yaretzi and Xoctili, are ready with their razor-sharp obsidian knifes to make the sacrifices need to prevent disaster.

Yaretzi and Xoctili are two old, circa 1970's, metal castings from Grenadier.

Strong Hearts Are Our Specialty

 

At the height of the Aztec (Mexica) Empire no position held greater status than that of high priest. Here are two, Cipac and Cectzin, who have just performed one of the most important rituals, removal of a human heart to feed the gods.

To the Aztecs nothing was more sacred than human life, so it followed that nothing was more suitable to keep the gods alive than human blood.

The greatest honor in the Empire was to be chosen as a human gift to keep the gods and the world safe.

These Aztec Priests are metal Grenadier pieces I painted back in the 1970's.