The commissive aspect embodied in the oath makes the oath institutional, more deified, revered, and dangerous, and hence a verbal taboo.
However, instead of being 'places', these were deified heterotopias.
Is it really true, though, that subjects from the sixteenth century and onwards literally deified their monarchs?
Clearly, deified heterotopias in rituals have the added advantage of giving concrete shape to an abstraction - thus making them, easily referable in daily use.
Huitzilopochtli seems to be the epitome of the deified ancestor who becomes an oracle.
No one has discussed the role of the chief valuer, who has sounded so far to be in a deified position.
In this modern world, we have almost deified doctors and think that they have a cure for virtually everything.
Those who ought to be deified are those who wade through blood and fire to bring us the victory to which we now look forward.
