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Bare adobe room with a straw mat hung from a pole across the whole doorway, daylight showing only at its edges, a clay jar in one corner and a bench with folded cloth in the other

the household at midday dark

A mat across the doorway, daylight at its edges, nobody inside. The response recorded in Book 7 of the Florentine Codex belongs outdoors — shouting and weeping, war cries in the temples — and the darkened house is what it leaves behind.

Basis: The public eclipse response in Florentine Codex, Book 7 · AI-generated

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Dry valley and bare hills lit as if at midday while the sky above them has gone to near night, a single star showing high in the dark

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Folded white cloth with a length of twisted cord and a small black obsidian blade laid on it, resting on a round coiled straw mat

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