Outside Cholula City, the twelve priestly families spread out two miles from the city in a line. They held high ancient feathered banners, wore the equally ancient garments of the Toltec people, and carried themselves with elegance and grandeur. Beside the priests were a large number of priest apprentices holding divine objects, and ceremonial retainers bearing ritual implements high.
Further out, two hundred young maidens of Cholula, holding flowers, awaited respectfully with grace; over a thousand temple warriors wielded war clubs, vigilantly guarding the outermost perimeter.
At the very center of the crowd, adorned in ancient Rain God sacrificial robes, wearing a heavy black lustrous stone crown, and wielding a turquoise scepter, was the Cholula priestly leader, Petl.
