For some reason, the Tlaxcalans were not fans of the Aztecs.
Posted on 06/27/2018 8:00:41 PM PDT by BBell
The full horror of the Aztec 'skull tower' revealed: Archaeologists say THOUSANDS of human sacrifices had their still-beating hearts cut out before their heads were severed and added to a monument the size of a basketball court
Archaeologists previously found 650 skulls in Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which became Mexico City
New research shows find was just a small part of massive array of what was once thousands of skulls
New details of the gory rituals have also been revealed, which include turning skulls into masks
Aztec human sacrifices were far more widespread and grisly that previously thought, archaeologists have revealed.
In 2015 archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) found a gruesome 'trophy rack' near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City.
Now, they say the find was just the tip of the iceberg, and that the 'skull tower' was just a small part of a massive display of skulls known as Huey Tzompantli that was the size of a basketball court.
The new research is slowly uncovering the vast scale of the human sacrifices, performed to honor the gods.
According to the new research detailed in Science, captives were first taken to the city's Templo Mayor, or great temple, where priests removed their still-beating hearts.
The bodies were then decapitated and priests removed the skin and muscle from the corpses' heads.
Large holes were carved into the sides of the skulls, allowing them to be placed onto a large wooden pole.
They were then placed in Tenochtitlan's tzompantli, an enormous rack of skulls built in front of the Templo Mayor, a pyramid with two temples on top.
After months or years in the sun and rain, the skulls would begin to fall
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Could have watched Apocalypso 10 years ago and discovered that fact out
Not just horrific — a very efficient way to gather demons to what we were to know later as Latin America.
And so many are giving Donald Trump a hard time for wanting to screen whoever comes in from there.
Mel was on the outs with the hollyweird crowd so I think that is why it was shunned.
Apocalypto
Seriously though, for centuries people read the accounts of the Spanish priests who accompanied Cortes and discounted it as impossible propaganda. The sheer number and pace of murders described defied all experience. But science has gone on to corroborate pretty much every aspect of those accounts. Imagine being a witness to it, tens of thousands killed in a day by ripping their still-beating hearts out and they cutting their heads off, stripping off the skin and mounting them to a wall with tens of thousands of skulls on it.
It wasn't just gold lust that made them want this empire eradicated.
Ping!
The depth of the evil would have made compromise easy. There was a reason that in one of the first conquests by the Hebrews they were told to keep none of the gold or spoils.
These are the same ignorant souls who believe a bunch of white guys just landed in Africa and started kidnapping people to sell into slavery.
BTW, my posts is better. (;>)
Not disjoint sets?
Wellllll......
They’re just making the sacrifices that Americans won’t do, after all, dontchaknow....
All cultures are NOT equal... this one’s a loser.
Cortes’ technology would have been better, so that might make sense and explain why the Aztecs hadn’t yet been wiped out.
I had to laugh when the leader of the raiding party returned with his captives and, being early hit by the felling of a huge tree, delivers the Ratso Rizzl line “I’m walking here!!” Freaking hilarious.
Puts the B in barbarian huh
It’s a little known fact that all these ancient civilizations went extinct soon after approving gay marriage laws-
Rizzo.
As if in all the other evil cruft anybody even noticed.
I’d think that this wasn’t the first such party Satan threw
For some reason, the Tlaxcalans were not fans of the Aztecs.
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