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1. Dynasties

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   Vertical Transfer (The 'Spiritually Linked' Line)
   Certain dynastic lines, particularly those emphasizing spiritual or cosmological connection to the state's founding, occasionally favored succession through a more distant, yet ritually appropriate, relative. This was often employed when direct male heirs were deemed spiritually or physically insufficient. For instance, in some pre-Columbian Mesoamerican polities, succession might pass to the favored nephew of the deceased tlatoani, provided the nephew had undergone specific ritual purification rites designed to imbue him with the prede…