Nextla'e'hualli Tlahatepa

After years of research, Juan Coyo finally translated what he believes to be the ancient citizenship ceremony of the Huitca people.

In the early days of Huitca civilisation, someone could not become a citizen without undergoing this ritual, which bound the individual to worship only Cardinalism and to denounce their entire past for the sake of being a 'True Huitca'. This discriminatory method had not been used for its original purpose for hundreds of years, instead being performed on a voluntary basis.

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Nextla'e'hualli Tlahatepa (Blood-offering To Tlahatepa)

Overview

A text intended to accompany a ritual of citizenship, which should replace foreign 	blood with the blood of Tlahatepa through the will of Tlahatepa, thus becoming a 	true Huitca.

Each of the hymns are to be sung at specific points throughout the ritual, and must 	not be performed out of order.

Pre-ceremony

The Hymn Of The Vessel

To be sung by the Tlatoani before the ritual. The Tlatoani must kneel before the sarcophagus of an embalmed Mihuicolli, asking it to guide the initiate citizen's past life safely into the afterlife.

Ceremony

The Hymns Of Conception

These hymns are to be said as the Tlatoani and initiate citizen each make cuts in their own left-hand fingertips. The chant is led by the Tlatoani, who says the corresponding hymn following each fingertip incision. The initiate citizen must copy the Tlatoani on their own fingers, finger by finger, each cut followed by the corresponding hymn. The Huehoxi guides the citizen in the chant.

The Hymn Of Purging (Meclahua, pinkie finger)

The citizen is to open their soul and let out all anger, pain, and negativity into the aether, so that those feelings may be eaten by Meclahua, thus staying out of them forever.

"Open is self to conduit of creation

A rapture by would cleanse hedonisms uncured

The stain of all that is painful and plebifying

Surrender tears, surrender hate, unlay self from form

Accept thine spirit to Self-journey"

The Hymn Of Passing (Xoalcoatl, ring finger)

The citizen is to accept the death of their past self, and guide them  to the gates of the underworld, where Xoalcoatl will accept their past self.

"Slate and candle touch time alike

Dark hymn now left flightless

Aswoon be the soul knelt to afterlife,

Nomadic journey complete"

(The citizen must now touch fingertips with the Tlatoani and maintain this 		contact for the next two hymns, so that their blood may become one)

The Hymn Of Womb (Cualitzin, pointer finger)

The citizen, now a blank slate, must allow Cualitzin into their body, so that they may be reborn as her child.

"A travel vessel idyllic

Offer warm nest paradise-weaved

enlightened sight reshape thine blood

sanctum of body shall soul fill"

The Hymn Of Birth (Tlahatepa, middle finger)

The citizen is to accept their new self as their true self, and vow allegiance to the will of The Great Balance, to Tlahatepa, and loyalty to their new Huitca family.

"The nocturnal creation now become kin day-born

Foundation of retribution meinadic

Acceping fully thyself as conduit of trust

Arrive the name of hand newborn"

The Clasp Of Sealing

The citizen and the Tlatoani stand up, and shift their left hands from touching fingertips to interlocking. The citizen speaks their new name, and the ceremony is complete. They are now Huitcan.