i have always been fascinated by the great as state civilization of ancient mexico and not only because of its extraordinary cultural and artistic achievements the concept of human sacrifice so prevalent in human indeed the very symbolic basis of christianity itself has never been carried to such extremes as it was daily in this kingdom of central mexico this spanish conquistadores were appalled by what they found in this right by the sheer carnage of numbers and remained oblivious to parallels in their own philosophies modern apologists have offered many theories concerning this right the most recent its clever political and religious disguise for the fact that the cannibalism associated with it served a real need for the protein starve citizens of the rome whatever its arjun's it was the religious right and all associated with it seem to approach it as such both practitioner and victim there are a few recorded examples of opposition to such but indeed many instances of willing participants on its altars just want to read of the emperor nets a wild colt banning human sacrifice in the center of his political empire one hundred years before the arrival of the spaniards i was curious as to why and so my muse offered to me a dramatic explanation in conjunction with the annual sacrifice of a single young male victim after a year of contemplation and extremely curious living and projecting an unknown familial relationship between the emperor and the young victim as a result of the murder of the emperor's father when he himself was a very young man completed the dramatic structure of the piece however his record is not unblemished he lusted after the favorite wife of his brother and had his brother put in front of a losing battle so he could be killed as did the biblical david with he also executed some of his sons who raided his private harem in search of beautiful women of their own in keeping with the brutality of his kingdom his efforts to end the scourge of human sacrifice harvests all the more surprising the part of his emperor is played by robert bartoli no friend of some twenty years who has interpreted many of my roles and he did it with extraordinary sensitivity and great insight thank you robert it was the hour the sun descended and as it did begin to move there was great silence in that place the people there were even not to whisper so i could hear the things he broke he climbed the stairs the dying sun was all i heard the cries of women who did create his seed new life as his  a side made to my right my left two priests each with a knife to take from him his heart to take from him his head these priests came near him he looked into my things with eyes i never saw and then they turned into that stone where he would soon be dead they laid him there into his arms into his legs the others with their knives came near him his head lay back and looked at me that he could say farewell and then before i could not even breathe they cut his chest and took from him is heart that he could see and when he could they cut from him his head they picked it up and brought it to my face so i could see  i fell back in my chair they took the head to show it the screams of men and women and then they took his body prepared for our faced i walked that one so young did die this place for gods who were insatiable for god some hours then the moon or in the sky they brought to me go on the dish small parts of him the fire and they are i ate those pieces up that boy that man first now in fatherhood and asked to see his eyes they brought them to my finger and they were perfect in that dish not live but perfect in that i could not know what this would mean the rest of my life i could not know i could not kno when were the sun again they brought to me his mother that i might say he died the gods to be the gods and all of us this place would worship him is she said no words  her and all did take her arms afraid perhaps that she would weep and shame us all we murdered what she brought forth to life she stood there desire to see is father i came upon a house of us and went inside to sleep and when i low there she was there to hide me feet he left me for many months the murderers were done they came to take me she brought them to me and then went into the night where not good ever find her for years four years four yeah i walked around that woman asked and asked she did not answer i put my hands her head and drew aside the veil and then of yet in me she said he said this was an evil thing and if he were to die that i should come to us he'd be that he be might and all my lips was there with there as far my eyes would go the sacrifice are done the sacrifice are done i sat that chair and stared the moon from  me thing in the morning and thing in the night no man no god no bird nothing nothing and for that silence my son did i my priests and i the rabbit oh it are enough for he who were the first my seed to go into the dark of him i did not know so perry there in words but of all the other i love as for myself how cochon who was a brother me i did i did so murder him all the women who were in my life only one she never knew but he that moment that he left me knew and knew i know it is i do not think i want to her i want to hurt her more clothes than any of my i want her the wife to brother me the wife the man that i murdered oh out did this act informed what all i did the beauty of this earth from ours the trees the fracs and earth what wept to us each year the sustenance we gave it back our bodies the decay forgive me father forgive me then i put all the priests before me and said we are enough of moon our circle earth and there is so all my kingdom for our instead of hearts birds instead of tongues and pungent oil to lick each other seem instead of blood i know when i work  where where and where and yet and yet we must whatever time we water on this earth whatever time whatever progeny we leave we must admit or be we came i did the law death i am a watcher in the night when flowers again and men and women love oh i enjoy this place i sing i dance i put my toe in the face of her delight oh i am  infamy i cannot answer where i sit in for me the tale are broke as pebbles in the sea now here now there now gone my sons the sons my sons the daughters beauty i remember and there i i die and die all such consume of our and the bird i say to you all of you make love what are consumed make love of all about you and sing and dance