The city contains a large number of temples, but they don’t share our religion.
Before my departure I will keep instructing them to understand our faith. I beckoned Moctezuma, their sovereign , and told him that they should give up sacrificing human beings. The idols in their temples are bigger than a person. Some of them are made with a mixture of seeds, legumes, and human blood. When the idols are completed, the people offer them human hearts. It is a gloomy ritual. They also have an idol for everything in order to get their gods’ favor.
sovereign: n. a king or queen
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