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To: Poincare
The Aztecs ate the "sacrifice" victims because they needed protein.

I guess that's what comes of establishing your civilization in a swamp -- shortage of protein.

But we should take a page out of their book, you know, the Noble Savage and all ...

I don't remember any European civilization that practiced cannibalism as a routine matter. But that must be because I'm seeing history through a Eurocentric prism ...

80 posted on 07/18/2006 9:54:03 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
I don't remember any European civilization that practiced cannibalism as a routine matter.

Though they were certainly outcasts and reviled, have you ever read about the grotesque Beane family of Scotland? Strange, strange story.

The Sawny Beane family

113 posted on 07/18/2006 12:17:29 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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