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Bet You Didn't Know
Where did Lady Godtva ride naked through the town?
• Since 1678 Lady Godiva ■ legendary ride naked through the streets of Coventry. England, has been reenacted every seven or eight years But today the lady wears a body stocking The famous ride, if It took place, happened around the year 1057, according to the chronicler Roger of Wendover. Godiva, her long hair falling loosely round her body. rode through the market place accompanied by two soldiers.
Legend has It that Lady Godiva pleaded with Leofric, Wl of Mercia. to lessen the townspeople's tax burden. Exasperated, the Earl declared he would do as she asked. If she rode naked through the town. Lady Godiva did so and the Earl cut the townspeople s taxes. Over the years the le-gend became embellished The the 17th century, the legend of Peeping Torr crept into the story. Tom is said to have been struck blind because he could not resist peeping at Lady
Godtva through a window as she rode by
The facts record that Coventry's early fame rested on the foundation of a Benedictine monastery by leofric and his wile Godglfu (the real name of Godtva) In 1043.
The phrase "to send to Coventry" (lo refuse to speak with someone) might well have been Ihe fate of Peeping Tom. But although the origin of the phrase la uncertain it seems more likely to have originated during the Civil War. Captured supporters of King Charles were sent by Cromwell's forces to Coventry for imprisonment.
When were human sacrifices made?
• Human sacrifices have been made throughout history. But seldom have they been so terrible as the ceremonies associated with the religion of the Aztecs, who began to establish their civilization in present day Mexico In about 1168
The Aztecs, who in many other respects were a compar-
attvely enlightened people, be lieved that human bloodshed was the way to make sure that the sun would rise each day At one of their biggest sacrificial ceremonies about 20.000 people were slaughtered.
The chief places for sacrifice were two great pyramid temples. 100 feet high. In the capital city of Tenochtltlan, which was built on an island in the middle of a lake.
An Aztec warrior's aim In battle was to take his enemy C'soner and hand him over sacrifice to his war-god. On the day chosen for the ceremony the war drums were sounded and, the prisoners were taken, one by one. up the winding stairs round the outside of the temple to the altar. Here their chests were cut open and their hearts torn out as offerings to the sun. Afterwards sonx of their bod les were eaten at ritual leasts.
The great empire pf the Aztecs, stretching from the deserts of northern Mexico to the tropical forests of Guatemala, seemed lo be at the height of its splendour when the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez landed with a tiny army from Cuba in March, 1519. After being treated as gods, the invaders were at tacked and nearly destroyed. But within two years the Aztec ruler Montezuma was slain by his people and his empire overthrown by Cortez.
Contributed by Sarah All
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