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SACRIFICE [Professors say Gibson's Apocalypto is biased against Mayan bloodletting]
Newsweek ^ | December 5, 2006 | Newsweek

Posted on 12/05/2006 11:45:28 PM PST by freedomdefender

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To: airedale
The original Aztecs were landless mercenaries brought in to help when a war

The Latin American History as taught by the school systems in the 1960's had the Aztec tribe as the poorest and smallest of the tribes of that part of North America. They were landless until one day while wondering through a swamp, they came upon an eagle sitting on a cactus eating a serpent (snake). This was a vision that one of their elders had dreamed of previously. They made that swamp their home and became the great tribe that the Spanish Conquered a few hundred years latter. The eagle on the cactus eating the serpent is the symbol on the Mexican Flag. There is also a book Aztec, by Gary Jennings that is a great read once you get past the sexual descriptions of meaningless fiction.

41 posted on 12/06/2006 4:30:47 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Miss Marple
Ping..(because I agree with you)
42 posted on 12/06/2006 4:36:30 AM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President....2008!)
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To: freedomdefender
Yes, the Maya sacrificed humans to the gods, but these rituals were part of a complex worldview:

Yes, satanism.

I was hoping that this movie would destroy the PC whitewashing of the satanic human sacrifices of Mayan civilization.

There's a reason why Mary visited Juan Diego.

1474 An Indian named Quauhtlatoatzin was born in Cuautitlan.
1476 Juan de Zumarraga was born in Spain.
1492 Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Americas and named it San Salvador.
1514 The first Marian Shrine in the New World was established in the city of Higuey, first to be built on American soil.
1519 Hernan Cortez landed in Mexico.
1521 The capital city of the Aztecs falls under Cortez.
1524 The first 12 Franciscans arrive in Mexico City.
1525 The Indian Quauhtlatoatzin is baptized by a Franciscan priest. He received the Christian name of Juan Diego.
1528 Friar Juan de Zumarraga arrives in the New World.
1529 Juan Diego’s wife, Maria, became sick and died.
1531 Year of the apparitions to Juan Diego
1533 The first sanctuary was erected.
1541 Franciscan priest and early historian of New Spain “Motolinia” writes that some nine million Aztecs had become Christians.
1548 Death of Juan Diego.

43 posted on 12/06/2006 4:38:52 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Guenevere
Yep. Sad but true...Gibson is flat out nuts. Just wait until you see the preview to this movie, Guennie. You will be horrified, and it only hints at the graphic parts.

I won't be seeing any more of his movies.

44 posted on 12/06/2006 4:39:38 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
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To: sphinx
bad as the Spanish were by our standards, the Indians of Mexico horrified even them. The carnage shocked even the scourge of Europe. Game, set, match.

What kind of reaction do you get?

45 posted on 12/06/2006 4:44:05 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Miss Marple
Sadly, I'm with you.

I own some of his movies--Braveheart, The Passion, The Patriot.... still thought he was one of the good guys...

..but after reflecting on his rage....and subsequent quotes he made against President Bush...and his predilection toward violent scenes...

...I know I will not see this movie....I don't care about this movie...

..and I don't really care for him anymore.

46 posted on 12/06/2006 4:55:52 AM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President....2008!)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Well that's not very accurate considering there was a major city the capital of a major empire siting on that island in the swamp. See if you can find LA Capital: The Biography of Mexico Cit by Jonathan Kandell. It starts before the Aztecs took over and goes in to great detail about how they came to power, their religion, eating habits as well as their relations to other tribes. The book is about 700 pages in paperback with about 15% devoted to this topic.


47 posted on 12/06/2006 5:03:50 AM PST by airedale ( XZ)
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To: airedale

Thanks, I'll check it out.


48 posted on 12/06/2006 5:18:05 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Guenevere
If I happen to like the movies an actor or director puts out, I won't let their political hangups become a hangup for me.
Mel's movies that he has stared in and directed have always been violent. Mad Max, Road Warrior, Ransom, Payback and even the really stupid movies he did with Danny Glover (another political genius). Mel's movies have always told us that it will be a violent world, it has been a violent world and it is a violent world. South Park even did an episode where he is shown as being crazy, before his rant for the LA police happened.
I'm looking forward to seeing this movie on dvd.
49 posted on 12/06/2006 5:30:48 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper
Well, all I can tell you is that the previews creeped me out. I have always thought the destruction of those South American Indian cultures was a good thing. I see no value in a society that lives on slavery and human sacrifice.

I know Gibson's movies have always been violent. I am, however, begining to feel that he is obsessed with it, and gets his jollies on luring others into watching it.

First he got a bunch of Republicans to watch "The Patriot."

Then he lured a bunch of Christians into watching "The Passion."

Now, apparently, he is luring multi-cultural kumbaya people into watching "Apocolypto."

And all the while he is laughing at all of us, because we are bankrolling his sick fascination with violence.

Count me out.

50 posted on 12/06/2006 5:49:02 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
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To: vox_freedom; Canticle_of_Deborah
Sounds eerily like the "complex world view" behind the culture of death lobby today.

"The gods need you," explains David Carrasco, professor of religious history at Harvard.

Hmmm. *Science needs the freedom to clone embryos, embryonic stem cell research etc.

"They depend on human life for their own existence, there's this kind of reciprocity."

*Think of how many diseases we could cure if you would only support the sacrifice of the tiniest of humans - no one would even miss them.

In sacrifice, he adds, the people are becoming like gods.

*We decide whose life is valuable, and we can use the lives of those who we decide are inconsequential to attempt to make the important people, those with power and money, immortal.

51 posted on 12/06/2006 6:35:39 AM PST by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: murphE
*Think of how many diseases we could cure if you would only support the sacrifice of the tiniest of humans - no one would even miss them.

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52 posted on 12/06/2006 6:49:18 AM PST by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
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To: vox_freedom

Aren't you glad we live in the US in 2006 instead of Mexico at that time? Our country's culture *(4,000 abortions daily) is so much more humane and civilized than the the culture of those Mayan savages. Mel Gibson is just bonkers if he thinks that there is any comparison between the two. (Is sarcasm tag really necessary?)


53 posted on 12/06/2006 7:00:06 AM PST by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: freedomdefender

[Professors say Gibson's Apocalypto is biased against Mayan bloodletting]

LOL! BWAahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha!!!!!


Lord help me! Too stupid!!!!


Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!


54 posted on 12/06/2006 7:02:20 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: freedomdefender

sniff, sniff, sniff.


55 posted on 12/06/2006 7:03:43 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: wodinoneeye

Perhaps the biggest reason the Aztecs fell was that Montezuma saw Cortez as the fulfillment of religious prophecy. His religion predisposed him to defeat as the Will of the Gods.

But for that Cortez would not have lasted two minutes once Montezuma gave the word to kill him and his small band.


56 posted on 12/06/2006 7:11:32 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Dixie Yooper

In a Simpsons episode Mel machinegunned Congress.


57 posted on 12/06/2006 7:14:44 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
But for that Cortez would not have lasted two minutes once Montezuma gave the word to kill him and his small band.

Insert remark about the usefulness of religion in the exercise of power here.

58 posted on 12/06/2006 7:14:52 AM PST by Wormwood (the happiest sadist)
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To: Miss Marple

I don't think that is what he is doing in this new movie though I haven't seen it. If it is at all accurate to the culture it will revel just how evil it was. More likely he did the movie as a kudo to the Catholic conquerers.


59 posted on 12/06/2006 7:17:09 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: murphE

What the professor is saying about their beliefs is nontheless true. That is what they believed. Those chosen to be sacrificed generally believed it to be a high honor as well at least with the Mayas. The Aztecs were much more indiscriminate and brutal.

In fact, another factor in their loss to the Spanish was that their battle tactics stressed capture of the enemy rather than killing them in order that they could be sacrificed. This gave the Spanish an advantage having no inclination to do anything but kill the enemy in battle.


60 posted on 12/06/2006 7:20:25 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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