Chimalpahin, whose imagination was drenched in biblical imagery, would have remembered the haunting text from the book of Revelation: “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works.”80
