Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

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    Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

    The priest quickly sliced into the captive's torso and removed his still-beating heart. That sacrifice, one among thousands performed in the sacred city of Tenochtitlan, would feed the gods and ensure the continued existence of the world.​

    Many anthropologists have denied the veracity of reports about this practice from The Conquistadors. Anthropologists have a reflexive antipathy for western Europeans; they were colonizing the area, and thus they were “evil”. A great many academics are doing their “Who are we to judge? All cultures are equal” dance. No.

    Death, however, was just the start of the victim's role in the sacrificial ritual, key to the spiritual world of the Mexica people in the 14th to the 16th centuries.

    Priests carried the body to another ritual space, where they laid it face-up. Armed with years of practice, detailed anatomical knowledge, and obsidian blades sharper than today's surgical steel, they made an incision in the thin space between two vertebrae in the neck, expertly decapitating the body. Using their sharp blades, the priests deftly cut away the skin and muscles of the face, reducing it to a skull. Then, they carved large holes in both sides of the skull and slipped it onto a thick wooden post that held other skulls prepared in precisely the same way. The skulls were bound for Tenochtitlan's tzompantli, an enormous rack of skulls built in front of the Templo Mayor—a pyramid with two temples on top. One was dedicated to the war god, Huitzilopochtli, and the other to the rain god, Tlaloc.

    I am a human being, endowed by my creator with the ability to judge the relative merits of things, this was pure evil. The Spanish were right to wipe these people out, it's a damn shame they didn't get there sooner. Why yes, my culture is superior to their culture.

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    A codex written after the conquest by a Spanish priest depicts Tenochtitlan's enormous skull rack, or tzompantli.
    1587 AZTEC MANUSCRIPT, THE CODEX TOVAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS


    While most of those killed were slaves or captives, some weren't. In Chichen Itza, the players sacrificed after a Mesoamerican ballgame were the victors. These men worked very hard to get good enough to earn the honor of being killed. Never assume that our values are universal. They're not. Refusing to recognize this is a Western conceit.

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    When we come across this, do we have a responsibility to end it?
     
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    yeah they have a deep culture into this and still celebrate it in Mexico:wtf: to this day
    :eekeyes:
     
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    Wonder what started them down this path?
     
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    similar to the Egyptian demise[​IMG] they got into this bird god worshiping or hawk eagle :eek:and folks were the prey[​IMG]
     
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    I bet all those skulls aren't old. The cartels run quite an operation in Mexico.
     
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    That's news to me. It was well known both the Aztecs and the Mayans practiced human sacrifice. Not unusual since many human cultures across the planet did the same.
     
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    diversity and multiculturalism pimps of the day would surely be outraged at the wrong people.
     
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    Except the Aztecs and Mayans were still practicing it hundreds of years after the rest of the civilized world ended such practices.
     
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    but were doing away with the death penalty now all over the global, see we are smarter more civilized then them of the past:wtf: and are pc lawyers are our new gods:(
     
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    The feathered lizard god, Quetzalcoatl:

    quetzalcoatl.jpg
     
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    This is the logic of the most violent and genocidal bigotry and racism - the logic that if you can find any evil within a culture this justified total genocide of everyone - while telling the lie that their own culture is not nor ever was evil. The message is the logic of ISIS, terrorists and mass murderers - which is exactly who the Spanish were. In fact, the Spanish likely were the greatest mass murderers in known world history - and OPer praises such mass murder and total genocide.

    The Spanish not only engaged in pure total genocide - literally - across the Americas so great that the mass murdered to extinction every human in the Caribbean, but also engaged is protracted and murderous torture against women, children and men within Spain itself.

    Obviously, the OPer is claiming that TORTURE of anyone and everyone is morally right and superior - making the OP a statement of truly the most dangerous of all "pure evil" in his high praise of the Spanish for their being mass murderers and torturers elsewhere and within Spain itself - and the OPer absolutely LOVES slavery - mass murdering slavery for which he praised enslaving entire populations and working them to death rapidly - those they did not outright mass murder from the start.

    The OPer can be summarized with this: "I love mass murder and genocide of everyone on earth who isn't like me. Everyone not like me must be killed."

    The OP is of that murderous level of racism, bigotry, and xenophobia - as evil a moral view as possible.

    The OPer gives NO clue what he claims HIS culture is, while claiming his secret culture is superior. Accordingly, I can not comment on the morality of his "culture." But I can state as fact his declared personal morality is pure evil as great as evil can be.
     
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    It was no secret that ancient cultures all over the world had practiced human sacrifice.

    Shall we start with our Boy Abraham who was ready willing and able to cut his own son's throat because he heard God tell him to do so to proove loyalty.

    In Hawaii they sacrificed virgins to stop volcanoes from periodically erupting but they periodically erupted. How they just build subdivisions near volcanoes so the Lava God can eat houses, cars, and the occasional resident.

    Some cultures sacrificed virgins to bring back the sun during eclipses. Thank God they did or we would not have a sun.

    So the Mayans and Aztecs did it big time. Yes so what we knew that and there is nothing political or racial about it.
     
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    yeah half snake and bird of prey, they want to fill their bellies to their hearts content, drugging us with their hypnotic drugs:weed: they are sending across the border to us making us weak:hippie::spin: and leftist like
     
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    Maybe Trumpians are right let's build that damn wall. LOL
     
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    Yea that is what the Egyptians did....
     
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    Didn't Romans force gladiators to sacrifice for sport. Oh and feed Christians to the lions. Nice civilized people those Romans were?

    Let us not forget Russians who murdered 35 million and Hitler and Pol Pot, and others along the path of history. How cultured they are!
     
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    I suspect the OP also is motivated by extreme hatred of Jews - the oldest bigotry in the world. At the same time the OPer claims Spain was correctly mass murdering and enslaving children, women and men in the Americas as less than animals for financial profit, Spain also was engaged in the Spanish Inquisition against Jews by the hundreds of thousands - more HEROIC acts by the Spanish for which the OPer likely would point to OT wars to claim the Spanish were justified in mass murder and torture of Jews.
    Then the OPer can go around the world, finding any wrong anyone in any culture ever did, justifying mass murder everywhere. In fact, by the OPer's logic, every human on earth should all be tortured, starved and otherwise murdered for crimes someone of their race or culture committed - for which certainly 100% of everyone of the OPers "culture" all should be mercilessly killed - 100% of everyone.
     
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    Human nature. We're fooling ourselves when we claim how civilized we are. Cut the power, cut the food and water supply and within days people will be killing each other for a bottle of water or a bag of apples.

    The story of Dracula was based upon Vlad the Impaler. He got that name for impaling his enemies in the 15th Century. Romans crucified thousands of rebellious slaves along the Appian Way after the Spartacus revolt.

    https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html
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    http://www.biblestudy.org/biblepic/the-appian-way.html
    Perhaps the most well known event on the Appian road, the 'queen' of Rome's long roads, involved the ex-gladiator Spartacus. His life story, in 1960, was made into a very popular movie. In 73 B.C., Spartacus led a slave revolt against the empire. This uprising was significant because slaves accounted for about one-third of Italy's entire population.

    The ex-gladiator fought for over two years and defeated several Roman armies. However, while trying to escape from Italy (at the port city of Brundisium - Brindisi, where the Appian road ended); he unwittingly moved his forces into Apulia - Calabria. This allowed the Romans to pin his forces in between two of their armies. After their defeat, the slaves were deemed no longer deserving of life. In 71 B.C., about 6,000 of them were crucified, starting at Rome, along a 124-mile (200 kilometer) stretch of the Appian.
     
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    those were the sports of the day like football and basketball hockey fights are now a little entertainment need to keep the masses some :rolleyes:relief
     
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    Define "civilized world" because the Germans set a new standard for mass executions even though Mao and Stalin attempted to best that record.
     
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    thats right;) i knew i scare the living daylights out of yah to our wall building side:D
     
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    A few weeks ago I watched the American Experience episode on My Lai. Lots of detail there about who did what (both heroes and murderers) and why. At least 300 civilians died in the massacre. Sure, some probably were VC sympathizers, but murdering children can't be justified even if all the adults were armed VC bent on killing GIs.

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/mylai/

    http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6413E7284E6B4B37BA445544F1D804DE

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_(film)
     
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    Don't forget Pol Pot
     
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