Your sudden concern with our religious practices is quite surprising to us, considering you seemed completely fine with what we were doing when you asked for our hospitality. But maybe our pulque has been too strong for you foreigners, since it apparently resulted in a completely unexpected urge to carry out a theft that was as ruthless and thorough in execution as it was rapid in escape!
In all seriousness though, the brutal efficiency of this raid shows that it was not a spontaneous act of piety. You claim holiness, yet you defile shrines to Mayan Gods; you claim righteousness, but you betrayed our trust and rewarded our hospitality with violent theft; you claim strenght, but you use treasonous subterfuge to take from small Cholollan. How can you claim the favor of the Gods when you cynically use them to justify your terrible crimes against both them and us?
So, since you obviously can't be persuaded to return the idols peacefully, we are unfortunately forced to take military action. But, just as you warned me, I must do likewise: You are leading your people to ruin. You aggrieve your Gods far worse than us; their punishment is already upon you, and you should be taking steps to alleviate their wrath rather than increase it.
There is one more matter I need to adress here for all of you, though: The supposed offense done to the Gods by me. In truth, I should have adressed this a long time ago, but at the time I did not see things as clearly as I do now, by the grace of the Gods. So, let me explain:
Back during 12 Rabbit, I resolved to end all human sacrifices to Quetzalcoatl, since, as is well known, He neither needs nor wants human hearts. In my orders I emphatically mentioned several times that this measure only applied to the sacrifices to Quetzalcoatl; I still have the official documents as proof. But, when I issued this command, all my bureaucrats, tlamatinime and priests could only hear and read: "Abolish ALL sacrifices"! And so it happened, as you are doubtlessly aware. I was as astonished at this as you and everyone else; with fear in my heart I expected the wrath of the Gods and the people to come down on me... but nothing happened.
My friends, we are the servants of the Gods and They guide our hands; not in a vague and deceptive way, as in a drunken pulque-fuelled haze, but with acts like these. I have no other explanation than that Quetzalcoatl himself intervened; this should be a humbling experience for any tlatoani... but, as I said, I did not see things clearly at the time: my eyes were blinded with pride. I began to think that it was ME who did this great and terrible thing! And, at the time, good fortune and omens indicated the approval of our Protector with the abolition of human sacrifices. But now I have been humbled by recent events, both good and bad. For, even as calamity strikes, I can see how we have been unwittingly prepared for this crisis by the Wisdom of Quetzalcoatl. His hand guides and protects us, and I once more humbly submit to His will.