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Huitzilopochtli

In Aztec religion, a central deity. The Aztecs sacrificed thousands of human lives to him each year, especially at the great festival of Panquetzalitzili (‘the raising of the banners’), which celebrated his supremacy as a god of war and courage.

He was the guardian deity of the city of Tenochtitlan. A fierce warrior god, reputed to have slain 400 of his own siblings, he was often depicted as a giant eagle.



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In our parallel with the Aztecs, the banking cartel plays a role akin to that of the Aztec priests who supplied Huitzilopochtli with a steady diet of human victims.
Huitzilopochtli, God of War, guided the Aztecs from Aztlan to what later became Mexico City, "the place .
The brother who killed her was Huitzilopochtli, the war god.
 
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