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"Article evaluation: Aztec caco symbol and ritual."

Cacao had a value symbolic meaning even in rituals.

The sacred calendare shows four quarter of the universe, nine gods, and four world trees where one of this is the cacao plant. At the top of this tree there is a macaw bird, which is the symbol of the land from cacao where it is come from.

During the time the cacao pod was a symbolic term, used in rituals, for the human heart torn out in sacrifice. This might came up because of the vague similarity of shape between the two objexts, but the more explanation would be that "both were the repositories of precious liquids blood and chocolate."

As a matter of facts, in one ritual, cacao was associated with heart extraction where Once a year, a slave, to sacrifice, was treated as the great god Quetzalcoatl, even dressed up full of jewels to honored their god. But the chocolate was also served at the installation ceremony for an Eagle knight or Jaguar knight. Because of his symbolic blood, it was the right and true potion for Aztec warriors.