To: umgud
According to my Mexican guide about 10 years ago, ritual sacrifice was a Spanish propaganda tool. The Maya were a peaceful people. No human sacrifice ever took place in their civilization.
She grimaced when I laughed aloud.
15 posted on
08/21/2015 3:31:55 PM PDT by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: Textide
Remember that Mayans are not Aztecs.
23 posted on
08/21/2015 4:13:06 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Textide
As I remember it, as Cortez and his men entered Tenochtitlan, they passed a wall made of 20,000 skulls. That gave them an early clue that they had better not just a conclude a trade treaty with these people.
24 posted on
08/21/2015 4:20:50 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
To: Textide
I quit listening Mayan guides 30 years ago, a couple of whom, have to be claimed history professors.
36 posted on
08/21/2015 5:27:36 PM PDT by
razorback-bert
(Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
To: Textide
It used to be the common Archaeological wisdom that the Maya were much less into that sort of thing than the Aztecs. That wisdom has been shown by further digging to be not the case. Apparently virtually all of the “civilized” Central Americans were cannibals and prolific head choppers. Their descendants run pharmacological export businesses now.
69 posted on
08/23/2015 3:09:02 PM PDT by
ThanhPhero
(Khach san La Vang hanh huong tham vieng Maria)
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