. . . "Bathing was not restricted to the elite, but was practised by all people; the cronist Tom??s L??pez Medel wrote after a journey to Central America that Bathing and the custom of washing oneself is so quotidian (common) amongst the Indians, both of cold and hot lands, as is eating, and this is done in fountains and rivers and other water to which they have access, without anything other than pure" . .