Aztecs 1

By Pueros

Chapter 1 – Sungod

(Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, midsummer’s day, 1520)

The unusual but beautiful 14 years old boy captive was bound, by tight leather straps, spreadeagled to the diagonal wooden cross at the top of the huge main sacrificial pyramid. He was unusual for he was the very rare type, amongst the peoples of the whole continent, who possessed golden hair and blue eyes. He had been observing, over many hours, the sacrifice of 98 similarly aged pretty boy captives on the stone plinth, now awash with blood, at the foot of his cross. All had worn small blood-red loincloths, both flaps displaying the yellow sunburst symbol of the sungod at their centres, whilst they had been splayed face up on the stone surface by four priests, each tightly holding a limb apiece. A fifth more senior priest used the sacred sacrificial knife to cut out the boys’ still-beating hearts and display the vibrating organs to the many cheering thousands below. Their bodies had then been carried away by acolytes to be thrown into a deep pit within the innards of the pyramid, as the next victim was readied whilst the priests chanted prayers to the sungod. The victim’s young hearts were thrown into a huge jar for later ceremonial use.

The 99th terrified victim was now suffering the honour of being sacrificed and the boy looking down from above was not displeased that he would soon be released from the cross to be, at noon, the 100th and last offering on this midsummer’s day. He knew that, unlike the others, his small loincloth, which had a much bigger sunburst on the flaps, and also a noticeably large bulge at the front, would be stripped from him before he was splayed so that his seed could be produced, and his smooth genitalia sliced off, before his heart was removed. All three items extracted from his body would be required to initiate his successor, who would be another form of himself.

The boy firmly believed that he was the reincarnated sungod, on earth just for this sacrificial purpose so that his sacred day could be blessed with his own divine fertility and life offerings, which would guarantee the people good harvests of both food and babies in the year to come. He was happy to be returning to his spiritual form so that another similar rare boy could soon be found, amongst the many captives secured during the Aztecs’ on-going conquests of neighbouring peoples. The boy would clearly be imbued with the earthly presence of the sungod, who could therefore be here again, on this cross at the same time next year, after many months of rituals in the many temples of the major cities.

The 99th victim was despatched and the 100th released from his bondage. Unlike the others, the boy did not have to be dragged to the plinth but boldly stepped towards it. He removed his loincloth, to reveal a full erection, and then lay spreadeagled on the pool of warm blood that covered the stone surface. Four priests held the young god tautly in place in case he suffered any last-moment human frailties, for the strong hallucinatory and aphrodisiac mixture he had been given during his lengthy indoctrination had been known to fail embarrassingly at such times. His sacrifice would be conducted by the High Priest who had only watched the previous ninety-nine. The man, attired in flowing red robes, with the sunburst symbol emblazoned on the front and with a magnificent feathered head-dress, came forward and loudly uttered a prayer. He then began to masturbate the boy whilst four acolytes stood by, one holding in outstretched hands the sacrificial knife, dripping copious amounts of blood, and three proffering bowls to collect the sacred offerings.

(To be continued in Chapter 2 – ‘Tezozo’)