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Florentine Codex illustration of the birth of Huitzilopochtli at Coatepec and the defeat of Coyolxauhqui. The first hymn of Rig Veda Americanus is the war song of Huitzilopochtli.
Opening folio of Book III of the Florentine Codex, 'Libro tercero, del principio que tuvieron los dioses' - on the origin of the gods. The Nahuatl hymns Brinton published as Rig Veda Americanus were collected in Sahagun's same project.
Florentine Codex painting of a ritual heart sacrifice on a temple platform. Several hymns in Rig Veda Americanus accompany the festival sacrifices that Sahagun's informants describe.
The War Song of the Huitznahuac
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