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A thing like a ball of stone comes out of its entrails: it comes out shooting
sparks and raining fire... If it is aimed against a tree, it shatters the tree into
splinters. This is a most unnatural sight, as if the tree had exploded from within.
They dress in iron. Their deer carry them on their back wherever they wish to go
These deer, our lord, are as tall as the roof of a house."
-- from The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the
Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portilla