Women were already deposed from their former exalted position as heads of families and as leaders of consanguine communities.
2
These 'quarters' were the 'calpulli'; hence it follows that the consanguine groups held the altepetlalli or soil of the tribe.
3
Territorial unions grew up instead of the consanguine unions of old, and this new organization evidently offered many advantages under the given circumstances.
4
Each consanguine relationship thus gradually surrounded the surface on which it dwelt with a number of garden plots sufficient to the wants of its members.
5
Consanguine marriages are very common, and perhaps this accounts for the low intellect and mental debility perceptible in many families.