and the wielder showed no displeasure for there was no complicated and inarticulate extraction of the axe to be performed this time , and the horse could not immediately get back on its feet and was tripping in its own offerings but finally regained a splatter-dignified verticality , and the sacerdote aimed carefully at the horses head and threw the axe as hard as he could and the blow landed and the upper edge of the axes blade went deep inside the horses skull on its left side and into its brain and the horse finally toppled one last time and it fell on its left side and it fell on the third sacrificer and the weight of the sorrel horse blanketed the sacrificer heavily and the open swipe of the axes blade rested against the sacrificers neck and it had already bedrunk of him during the fall and the more the sacrificer struggled to push the horse off and get back to his feet the deeper the blades revelry and the deeper its thirst .