The sacred mass-conversion ceremony began in the golden morning sun and ended beneath a blood-colored sunset, lasting a full three days. More than sixty thousand Totonac tribespeople cut off their hair, drank blood-wine, and swore blood oaths before the burning Sacred Fire, converting to the faith of the supreme Main God!
And as witnesses to their conversion, tens of thousands of surrendered Totonac soldiers also took up weapons with trembling hands under the gaze of the Main God's priests, killing more than six thousand priests, warriors, and tribespeople from various clans who were unwilling to swear the blood oath and convert to the Main God. This tenth of blood and corpses must have been the most diehard and stubborn people among the coastal tribes. When they vanished completely, destroyed by the hands of their own kin, it also meant that the surviving Totonac tribes had made a clean break with their old faith!
"Where the god's eye looks, heaven and earth run blood-red! Once the red dusk has passed, the new dawn will be golden with life..."
Xolotl stood on the divine platform, watching as the blood pit of sacrifice, filled with fresh corpses, was buried bit by bit by the surrendered Totonac soldiers with their own hands. He listened to the Totonac people weeping and felt the fear and bewilderment in their cries. Then, very soon, the gentle soothing voices of the Main God's priests rang out among the sobbing crowd, filling the believers' newly collapsed minds, which were now nothing but blankness.
"The Main God bears witness! The bright Main God scatters the radiance of The Sun, warming the hearts of believers! He forgives devout believers, forgives the sins of their old days, and guides them after death to the Red Kingdom!"
"Praise the supreme Main God! He