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Evidence May Back Human Sacrifice Claims
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| 1/22/05
| MARK STEVENSON/AP
Posted on 01/23/2005 2:26:53 PM PST by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee
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.
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:12:18 PM PST
by
Lil'freeper
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To: biblewonk
"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.
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:12:21 PM PST
by
Migraine
To: denydenydeny
"Paraphrasing Team America World Police"
F**k yeah!
I loved that movie!
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:12:34 PM PST
by
jocon307
(Ann Coulter was right)
To: dangus
Doesn't the Aztec calendar end in 2012?
To: denydenydeny
Do they think the historians that drew this stuff made it all up?
To: Pookyhead
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.
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:45:46 PM PST
by
raybbr
To: wagglebee
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.
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:49:36 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: wagglebee
Of course we are told that all cultures are of equal value and it would be racist to condemn the Aztec's "faith tradition."
To: Malesherbes
Just like the Muslim "faith tradition" of murdering thousands of "infidels."
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:52:11 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
But they respected the environment.
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:53:36 PM PST
by
jackbill
To: wagglebee
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.
To: BurbankKarl
The "Aztec calendar" has ended every year I've been alive, according to the Weekly World News, Sci-Fi channel, and every other quack.
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posted on
01/23/2005 3:59:51 PM PST
by
dangus
To: wagglebee
But I'm sure the Indians only killed what they could eat, and no more.
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:04:57 PM PST
by
KidGlock
(W-1)
To: dangus
The End of the Mayan Calendar After Dec. 21, 2012
I confused the Alien Mexicans with the Blood Sacrifice onces.
To: RadioAstronomer
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:07:28 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: wagglebee; BurbankKarl; denydenydeny
The woman who ended the Aztecs' Reign of Terror in the Americas:
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:07:40 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
To: denydenydeny
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.
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:14:14 PM PST
by
wizardoz
To: Pookyhead
>>>What they want to believe is what IS
Bill Clinton, is that you?
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:15:26 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: wagglebee; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks wagglebee. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:18:18 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: denydenydeny
Oooh...that's gonna leave a mark.
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posted on
01/23/2005 4:26:24 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie because they have to)
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