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Why did Motecuhzoma say to Cortés “now you have arrived on the earth”?

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Motecuhzoma and many other Aztecs believed that Cortés was the god that would come to end all human sacrifice. In their religion the god had been cast away by another god who believed in human sacrifice.

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He believed Cortes was a God

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