Posted on 07/02/2017 4:48:38 AM PDT by C19fan
A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure. Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City. The tower is believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a massive array of skulls that struck fear into the Spanish conquistadores when they captured the city under Hernan Cortes, and mentioned the structure in contemporary accounts.
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Are these the Aztecs you are crying about? The Mayans were not quite as blood thirsty but they too practiced human sacrifice. I don’t recall the Catholic church ever doing so.
Indian cultures were as diverse as European or African cultures. Some were great and well suited to their environment - some were not. Some just sucked.
BUT, I think if we looked closely, we would see what? “Bush’s Fault!”
The Mayans were worse. Really. They were practiced in the art of TORTURE before the killing. When they got finished with a person, that person was READY to be sacrificed.
Columbus and those that followed brought European diseases that resulted in the death of up to 95% of the native populations.
The Spanish rolling in were heros. They were about the same as the armies liberating the nazi death camps. Thank God they wiped the Aztec reich.
Only Christ can deliver Mexico. Last month I spent ten days in Mexico at a school thoroughly training pastors and missionaries to spread the gospel, mostly to native peoples in Mexico and Central America. I was privileged to attend the first service in a new church in a remote village high up in the mountains. There has never been a Christian church in the village before. Only weeks before we arrived they held a festival to honor their pagan idol. For decades the village had one believer who prayed for God to give her a church and save her neighbors. Last August God began answering her prayers when a graduate of the training center started working there and every weekend a student travels to the village to evangelize. Today there are roughly 25 believers and, as of a month ago, they now have a little church. Some walk for miles to hear gospel preaching. During that first service we filled the building. Many people stood outside in the rain trying to hear the gospel as it was boldly preached. That same scenario is being repeated all over central and southern Mexico. I attended services in two other well-established churches and heard reports of others. It’s an amazing experience to hear hundreds of Mexican-Indian Christians singing In Christ Alone, Victory in Jesus, and Amazing Grace in Spanish. The Gospel is the only thing that can save Mexico. You won’t see it on the news, but the Spirit is moving there. I saw it firsthand.
The Iroquois nation was pretty much the equivalent of ISIS today.
http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/namerica.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4263726/Terror-group-teaching-fighters-EAT-non-Muslims.html
Cortez had many native allies in his fight against the Aztecs, namely those tribes who were tired of supplying the humans for the Aztec’s massive human sacrifices. Not PC, but true.
That’s what I USED TO THINK until I found a massive epidemic similar to Hantavirus destroyed the Indians well before Columbus “sailed the ocean blue”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/science/don-t-blame-columbus-for-all-the-indians-ills.html
One of the best books I have ever read is The Hummingbird and the Hawk. There was a General named Tlacaelel behind the Aztec throne that instituted much of the sacrifice and slaughter long before Cortez arrived. Tlacaelel advised and influenced Moctezuma I and Moctezuma II. At the height of the sacrifices, there was an immense double pyramid, and the blood from the bodies (hearts torn out of living subjects) flowed down the steps of the pyramids. It is no surprise that they are finding skulls.
The Mexica threw their sacrificial victims off the top of their pyramids. The victim’s heads went on the skull rack, the hearts into stone receptacles inside the temples to be burned, and the limbs were harvested for the post-sacrifice feast. Human flesh was a prime source of meat for the Mexica.
The Mexica priests covered their heads and bodies with their victim’s blood and never washed it off. According to the Spaniards the temples, and the priests, reeked from the smell of death.
The pyramid stair-steps were stained red with blood which could be seen from a great distance.
But, “all cultures are equal” as our Leftist rulers constantly remind us.
No intent. Columbus gets a Hillary.
Genghis Khan built similar towers of skulls. The important difference was that his towers were of enemy skulls. At least many of the Aztec skulls were of their own people and central to their “religion”.
I knew a lady, since I was 14 years old, who spent decades traveling the third world, from California to Germany to China. She worked with local churches, teaching them how to organize their church, how to found new churches, and evangelizing techniques. My mother traveled with her a number of times, and saw it for herself.
She saw the spirit moving everywhere, except at home.
'Actually, the "deluded" leftists *do* want to bring back those days. They hate civilized society. It may be that the rank-and-file leftists really believe in the unicorn and skittles view of primitive societies that their leaders constantly talk about, but the leaders know the truth. They support brutal societies because they desperately want to be the ones in power, to do with other people anything they desire.'
Our lovely 'school system' (run by hateful liberals) sides with 3rd world hellholes every time they have the chance,.. past and present. Sicko snowflakes.
Great story!
simply that history is more complex than pithy praises or condenations connote
jimmywray wrote:
... FWIW, Columbus and those that followed brought European diseases that resulted in the death of up to 95% of the native populations. ....
While that is probably true (but it can only be inferred based on the evidence available), it is also thought that there were some diseases (let’s called them exotic diseases) that were taken back to Europe by the explorers.
I have seen some articles that claim venereal diseases were unknown in the “Old World” prior to this age of exploration.
Anyhow, the proverb that, “what a man sows, he shall also reap”, seems to apply here.
I suggest "1491" by Mann for a start.
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