[edwinland]

For anyone interested in this subject, I highly recommend Inga Clendinnen’s The Aztecs which is a meticulous account of Mexicn culture just before the conquest. One ponit she makes is how human sacrifice was performed by an elite class of priests but it the entire society took part on elaborate festival days where neighborhoods all received parts of bodies and divided them up to families who organized feasts around them.

[neverevergiveup]

Wow. Gives new meaning to the phrase “you’ve stolen my heart”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I would add to that recommendation, for anyone interested in the architectural-ritual connection, Dr. Lindsay Jones:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1062825?seq=1