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Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - The local gods
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011472
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The Daily Life of the Aztecs – Jacques Soustelle
There were also uncountable numbers of little local gods who were held to protect the harvests and make them plentiful, .... as a body they were called the Four Hundred Rabbits. The rabbit was held to represent the moon, for it was a rabbit that the Mexicans saw in the dark patches on its face...