<QLazzarus_sounds/> Unsurprisingly, the English-Nahuatl translation for "I'd @&#k me" is unhelpful. Seriously though, I remember reading comics as an undergra

<QLazzarus_sounds/> Unsurprisingly, the English-Nahuatl translation for "I'd @&#k me" is unhelpful. Seriously though, I remember reading comics as an undergrad and Grant Morrison's fascination with Xipe Totec. One scary mfer. But somehow not as scary as real Aztecs. In one story - probably a mix of legend and record, passed through the filter of mass death - the Mexica (later known as Aztecs, back when they were sort of homeless, coming from no-one's-sure-where) had come to be challenged by an alliance between the Tepanec and the Cualhuac. The alliance relented and the Aztecs settled among them, but the multi-ethnic state did what ethnic states do, and things went a bit sour. So . . punchline. The Aztecs had this cultural tic: they demonstrated hostility by asking for something. So they asked for the gorgeous daughter of Prince Achitometl. The young lady was sent off to the Aztecs in the finest clothes and jewels during the Feast of Xipe Totec. Bright side: not the last time Achitometl would see his daughter. Down side: the way he saw her the second time round sent every single man, woman, and child into a purge-o-rific rage against these @&#$! Mexica. Go be Aztecs somewhere else! Not the last word in that story, obviously, but it's a good one. The Aztecs were never what you might have called "popular". Which, intuitively, makes sense, considering what would happen later.