‘I say no! Quetzalcoatl is among us. I have found the red Huitzilopochtli. The second strength!
‘When you walk or sit, when you work or lie down, when you eat or sleep, think of the second strength, that you must have it.
‘Be very quiet. It is shy as a bird in a dark tree.
‘Be very clean, clean in your bodies and your clothes. It is like a star, that will not shine in dirt.
‘Be very brave, and do not drink till you are drunk, nor soil yourself with bad women, nor steal. Because a drunken man has lost his second strength, and a man loses his strength in bad women, and a thief is a coward, and the red Huitzilopochtli hates a coward.
‘Try! Try for the second strength. When we have it, the others will lose it.’
Cipriano struggled hard with his army. The curse of any army is the having no
