Posted on 06/10/2005 6:27:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nick -- you are finding a lot of interesting articles! :)
Civ --
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Ping.
archeologists get so much wrong it is hard to believe them when they start inserting PC policy.
Was this not the culture that was viewed as a bunch of peaceful astronomical calendar watchers until a wall painting depicting blood sacrifices and bloody wars?
The use of stingray spines in bloodletting ceremonies
is well documented and the blood used to write messages
to gods which were then ritually burned.
This was an obligation of the ruling class, so one could
infer that these two women were of that class.
It doesn't give any hint about their deaths though, interesting positioning of the bodies...
killeeeeees
... ah the glories of PC.
Doublespeak rides again.
Oh yeah, right. The slaughtering of women makes women powerful . . . .puleeeeese.This makes it sound like women are the most powerful sex in Islam then, too . . . .
longtermmemmory wrote:
archeologists get so much wrong it is hard to believe them when they start inserting PC policy.
Was this not the culture that was viewed as a bunch of peaceful astronomical calendar watchers until a wall painting depicting blood sacrifices and bloody wars?
--Wait until the future, millions of years from now, i wonder how PC archealogists will portray TROP(tm).
The ancient Mayans were the world's first Democrats. When things went wrong, they blamed the women.
I sat at a lunch table once listening to a radical feminist protest how oppressive the Spanish were when they invaded Mexico. When I pointed out to her that the Spanish received help from tribes who were the sacrificial victims in Aztec religious festivals where they ritually murdered thousands at a time, including roasting and eating the victims, she said that this was okay because they were of the same race and therefore not racist.
She was a political science major. What a wasted education of time and money and a mind.
Maybe the stingray spines were just some kinky fad.
Ive heard a lot worse than that from biology and chemistry professors. Guess we should diss all those majors too huh?
How the heck does to women beign DEAD contribute to an argument of their STRENGTH? I'm starting to see how people might thing Carter was a good president, apparently failing miserably on a grand enough scale means you must have been a contender.
Somehow laying dead does not conjure up powerful.
Yowwwwsa
Um, pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't their NOT being killed mean they were more powerful? It seems to me that power resides in the sacrificER, not the sacrificEE.
What the poli sci professor overlooked was that the Aztecs did not consider their victims from other tribesto be of the same "race" and were therefore guilty of racist thinking.
The women may have been of a royal class, and so, they got the best treatment. Anne Boleyn's executioner was imported from France.
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