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Bailed at about the 65% point; will come back to it later.

3.5/5 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

#aztecmyths #history #religion #nonfiction

#hyggehourreadathon Working on Aztec for the hour; catching up on some TV while I read

At the ritual to welcome the troops back from Tizoc's coronation war a warrior collapses and dies. More and more people start dying, but is it a natural epidemic sent by Tlaloc, the Storm Lord, or the result of magic and a curse? Acatl must investigate and try to maintain the boundaries between the Fifth World and the supernatural realms.

The best of the trilogy, partly because I felt I had a much better grasp of what was going on.

#coffeeandabook

The Emperor/Revered Speaker Axayacatl has died. A member of the council to appoint his successor has been found ripped apart by a star-demon, but who summoned it and why?

I had problems following this one, trying to keep track of the different factions and what plots the main players were trying to forward. All very confusing, but I will persevere with the final episode.

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The priestess Huei has gone missing and Acatl's brother Nuetomoc is found in her room covered in her blood, so as high priest of Mictlantecuhli, the god of the Underworld, Acatl must investigate. But is it a sordid tale of lust and murder, or part of the machinations of court politics as the Emperor is dying, or something more cosmic as deities vie for supremacy? ⬇