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"We shall choose a place for the building, high on a hill. Blessed because it looks upon the sun's birth, blessed because favourable constellations of stars are ruling over it, blessed because in its entrails under the earth we shall find the roots of a silk-cotton tree.
"We shall dig and injure our mother earth, and to appease the groans from her mouth we shall spill the blood of an animal in sacrifice. The cock shall be mightily spurred and shall drip blood from the wound in its throat.