Posted on 08/21/2015 3:14:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Found on the western side of what was once the Templo Mayor complex in Tenochtitlan, in modern Mexico City, the partially unearthed skull rack was likely built between 1485 and 1502 and may have been about 112 feet (34 meters) long and 40 feet (12 meters) wide.
Mostly belonging to young adult men, but also to women and children, several of the unearthed skulls feature holes on both sides, suggesting they belonged to a tzompantli. This was a rack on which the skulls of sacrificed people were arranged on wooden poles and displayed...
To make the scene even more horrifying, the new finding revealed that part of the platform where the head rack once stood was made of rows of skulls mortared together in a circle.
All the skulls faced inward toward the center of the circle, although it’s unknown what was in there.
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I find comparing the barbaric Aztec, Mayan, Incan civilization to Mediterranean civilizations insulting. To the best of my knowledge no Mediterranean civilizations practiced human sacrifices on a massive scale. Public executions and public persecutions of undesirables is not human sacrifice of a religious nature.
I do wish more liberals would study the history of ALL the ancient civilizations of this planet-they would see that at some point in their development, all tribes/groups were pretty much bloodthirsty savages who practiced ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, and did absolute slaughters in war-there were no rules of engagement.
The Spaniards with Cortez, for instance were pretty savage in their methods of conquest-rape, pillage slaughter adults and kids alike, and carry off all the plunder-they didn’t do it as a ritual, but it wasn’t pretty. I’m not a bigot-those were my ancestors...
I’ve seen Apocalipto a couple of times-I seems pretty close to all I’ve read, historically speaking
“Apocalypto”-spell check did not catch that...
Nero and Caligula were pretty well up there on the scale of barbarity, slaughtering slaves, Christians, and anyone else who offended them in the public arena as part of that days’ “games”-they didn’t even do it as part of a ritual-just for the “amusement” of the cheering crowd.
Most-if not all-Roman emperors and generals carried their high-value captives back to Rome alive-not for ransom, but to keep in cages and slaughter in some inventive way as part of their triumph/victory celebration. The Romans took over Spain early on BC, and mingled with the natives there, spreading that hot Latin blood-they were not a nice bunch, and neither were the Spaniards who were/are their descendants-some would say we still are not...
Have you included in your research Carthage and infant sacrifice? A recent paper (2014) appears to show that this was an accepted practice in that society that certainly qualifies as a Mediterranean civilization.
‘Someone resurrected them to work at Planned Parenthood.’
Didjameen-——MUZZYS ???
No, I meant someone as in the author of evil.
Skull rack rack.
It used to be the common Archaeological wisdom that the Maya were much less into that sort of thing than the Aztecs. That wisdom has been shown by further digging to be not the case. Apparently virtually all of the “civilized” Central Americans were cannibals and prolific head choppers. Their descendants run pharmacological export businesses now.
Are they sure it’s an Aztec Temple and not an ISIS mosque?
I like her body...and her rack though.
I think Cortez had something like 20,000 Indian allies with him for the final assault on Tenochtitlan.
An interesting anomaly regarding the Spanish conquest of Mexico is a direct descendant of Montezuma is alive today and part of the Spanish nobility.
Tennis of thousands of Indians fought on Cortez’s side !
Graham poster child for repeal of the 17th Amendment!
The state legislature couldn’t do worse!
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