Aztec Warfare

“And now we dedicate him to the war god, to Night-and-Wind, the Lord, the Youth, Honored Enemy, He-whose-slaves-we-are, Tezcatl-Ihpocal. We hope he will have a long life. Perhaps our Lord will support him for a little while. We leave him to become a warrior. There he will live at the place that is the house of penance, the house of lamentation, the house of tears, the house for youths, where warriors, eagles, and jaguars live and become men. There people serve our lord.”