Huey tzompantli

The Aztecs would display the skulls of those sacrificed to their gods on skull racks, or tzompantli. The huey tzompantli was the skull rack kept adjacent to the Great Temple, one of the empire's most important sacrificial sites.[1] Made of stone, unlike the wood of its lesser counterparts, and anointed with molten silver and the blood of the victims of a bark scorpion, the huey tzompantli is under the effects of particular occult patterns that tie the structure to a nest of the scorpions that reside in the base of the rack, turning it into a piece of Infrastructure.[1][2]

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  1. 1 2 CofD: Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras, p. 235 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
  2. ↑ CofD: Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras, p. 236 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
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