ping!
Just where do archaeologists come up with these fairy tales?
This attributing motives is sheer speculation, not science.
Maybe there was more big game killed because they kill people and nobody wanted man eating carnivores in their backyards.
Gotta love how the author is channeling the thoughts of the Mayas.
So, elites are not people. I always knew that..............
“The change in hunting habits was likely prompted by deforestation and a drier climate, which shook faith in Maya rulers’ ability to provide “agricultural abundance,” Emery continues. In response to this uncertainty, rulers ordered that more large animals be killed for food, as religious offerings, and as evidence of their power and status.”
“The Maya and Conservation: Notably, the changes in hunting practices ran counter to the largely sustainable Maya conservation practices throughout their long history, Emery said.”
Drawing parallels between ancient man-made climate change, failure to maintain sustainable practices, resorting to myth-based rituals to the gods for deliverance, wiping out the trees and causing damage to their whole ecosphere.
Warnings written in bone.
Repent now, before it is too late.
marked to read later
I wonder if they have considered the obvious. If the Maya were willing to keep and care for people they would sacrifice, why wouldn’t they do that with animals?
They were skilled enough engineers to build enormous flat slabs of ground limestone concrete to build their temples on, and large artificial lakes lined with that same concrete. So how hard would it be to build pens or cages to raise sacred animals?
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Thanks 3AngelaD. Could have sworn we'd posted this somewhere, but this is the first! |
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As the climate changed and their empire declined, I’d bet Their rituals called for even bigger declines in the “long pig” via sacrifice.