Evidence May Back Human Sacrifice Claims

My Way News ^ | 1/22/05 | MARK STEVENSON/AP

[Lil'freeper]

Every time I read articles like this I think back to an interesting little novel by Orson Scott Card that explored how history would be different if Christopher Columbus had not discovered the new world. The story postulates that without the diseases introduced by the Europeans, the Aztec & Co. cultures would rise to dominance in North America. It also raises the question - What's worse? A period of human slavery that followed European colonization? Or widespread human sacrifice? Very provocative.

[Migraine]

"Dances with Wolves" where they made the Indians look like they were a utipian society ...

...they were a utipian society (emphasis on the tipi)

Just havin' fun with it; hundreds of others prolly saw the same thing and decided to let it go... I guess I'm too predictable.

[jocon307]

"Paraphrasing Team America World Police"

F**k yeah!

I loved that movie!

[BurbankKarl]

Doesn't the Aztec calendar end in 2012?

[BurbankKarl]

Do they think the historians that drew this stuff made it all up?

[raybbr]

These are the guys who invented the phrase "Perception is Reality".

I have arguments with people like these. Their minds have been corrupted by marketing techniques. They actually argue that if you perceive something it is true. Sort of like our society today where equivocation is regarded as intelligence. Can't say what you think or know. You mus always equivocate so as not to offend the person you are talking to.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If you're interested in the nature of human superstition and the ritual that's predicated upon it, you can't do better than James Fraser's seminal anthropological work The Golden Bough. To anyone familiar with Fraser's work (packed with specific and detailed accounts) nothing wrought by the mind of primitive man is surprising.

[Malesherbes]

Of course we are told that all cultures are of equal value and it would be racist to condemn the Aztec's "faith tradition."

[wagglebee]

Just like the Muslim "faith tradition" of murdering thousands of "infidels."

[jackbill]

But they respected the environment.

[Marano NYC]

Human Sacrifice was also proven among the Phoenicians.
I do not understand the need to romanticize Indians. Like any other culture they had good aspects and bad ones. This image of the all knowing wise man or the Land o Lakes maiden is absurd.

[dangus]

The "Aztec calendar" has ended every year I've been alive, according to the Weekly World News, Sci-Fi channel, and every other quack.

[KidGlock]

But I'm sure the Indians only killed what they could eat, and no more.

[BurbankKarl]

The End of the Mayan Calendar After Dec. 21, 2012

I confused the Alien Mexicans with the Blood Sacrifice onces.

[Calpernia]

[Pyro7480]

The woman who ended the Aztecs' Reign of Terror in the Americas:

[wizardoz]

There is one thing suspicious about that drawing: the genitalia is covered up. I was in anthropology for a while and (while I am obviously not an expert) all the "human sacrifice" art we saw featured very naked captives. Genitalia was never coyly covered by a draped cloth or shielded by a bent let. It was always right out there. Emphasized, in fact, as if to gloat over the captive's naked humiliation.

[Calpernia]

>>>What they want to believe is what IS

Bill Clinton, is that you?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks wagglebee.

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[Pharmboy]

Oooh...that's gonna leave a mark.