Tastes like.....?
Who's to say who's right and who's wrong?
Que se yo?
The summer wind
came blowing in
from across the sea...
If all the American Indian tribes came from the same Bering Sea crossers how come the ones in S. America became human sacrificers and the N. American Indians did not? Or am I just assumeing this?
Hardly news. If you want to read facinating accounts of human sacrifice rituals in the New World and just about everywhere else in the World, read Frazer's "Golden Bough." Quite horrifying things were done on a very regular basis.
I can't understand why anyone would find this surprising, or even scandalous. Primitive peoples have always indulged in cannibalism; ritual and otherwise. Part of it is based on the universal superstition regarding the transferabilty of "spirit" from one entity to another.
I can't see any functional difference between this and Wahab Islam.
all culture is relative....all culture is relative.....all culture is relative....all culture is relative.
NOT!
Modern "historians" (revisionists) only doubted these stories because to do so would cast a suspicious and evil eye onto the Catholic Church, of which Cortez was a member. The historcial evidence that Cortez and his small band of men witnessed the horrific sacrifice of babies and females is ample; but rejecting this historical evidence has enabled the liberals to attack the Spanish Explorers, (Catholics), by claiming they unfairly conquered and oppressed the native populations.
When one thinks of how little evidence these "historians" need as "proof" to assert that the likes of Columbus and the Spanish explorers were nothing but brutal conquerers and oppressers of innocent natives it becomes neauseatingly clear that they filter everything through an anti Christian mindset.
Archaeologists discover the Aztecs were notoriously bad cooks, their empire having never discovered the meat thermometer.
That filth raised people to eat them - kind of a feed lot thing.
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Can you imagine THIS culture surviving into the 21st century? Thank God for the conquistadors!
Had Europeans not colonized the Americas a visiting tourist of today would probably find the menu in the Native American restaurants rather unappealing.
I recall reading that Indian tribes (in today's eastern U.S.) would dismember their captives, roast their limbs and eat them before their victim's eyes. I also remember reading a diary of frontier life in Ohio where a settler had his abdomen cut open, one end of his bowels tied to a tree and he was forced to walk around the tree, wrapping his entrails around it, before he died. The brutality gave me the shivers.
We're not much better. We have the IRS.
Not really blockbuster news.
It has been known for a long time they had some gruesome practices.
I get the groups mixed up, but one of the Meso-American ancient cultures even played soccer with human heads.
I was walking to the Rose Bowl a couple years ago and the San Diego State fans were doing some of the very same rituals....that and smoking a lot of pot.
There are a couple of very good books about what really happened during that severe Winter. Read them when I was in high school. I hiked into that area when I was in my twenties and could not believe the isolation and deathly quiet near the site. This years severe Winter storms may have caused the Park Rangers in Donner Park to reflect back on what happened in 1846.
Over the next four months, the eighty-one remaining men, women, and children huddled together in two abandoned cabins*, make shift lean-tos, and tents. The cattle had all been killed and eaten by mid-December; one man had died of malnutrition. The people began to eat bark, twigs, and boiled hides._______In desperation, a group of nine men, five women, and a twelve year old boy packed scanty rations and on snowshoes made from oxbows and rawhide, set out to cross the pass for help. They called themselves the Forlorn Hope. Nine days later they realized they had become lost in the snow-covered mountains. Completely without food for three days and on the verge of starvation a suggestion was made to draw lots; the loser would sacrifice his life to save the others. Patrick Dolan drew the fatal slip, but no one could bring themselves to kill him. Malnutrition soon carried out what the group could not do. Two other men followed quickly. Ten members of the Forlorn Hope butchered their dead companions, then wrapped and carefully labeled the packages so no one would have to consume their relatives. The two Indians who had accompanied the group as guides refused the gruesome nourishment and vanished into the woods. (1)
* * * It took four relief parties two months to get all the survivors out. The second relief party, led by James Reed, reported that when they arrived at the camp, “half-eaten bodies” littered the ground and the survivors “surrounded by the remains of their unholy feast, looked more like demons than human beings.”
(1) Native America Plains Tribes did not eat white folks who were coming across in covered wagons. They had millions of buffalo to feast upon and other wild game to eat. Kevin Costner got the history mostly correct in "Dances with Wolves" and won an Academy Award for his efforts.
I'll be sure to celebrate Columbus Day with much more vigor from now on! :)
Lies Lies Lies. The native people were a peaceful nature loving people prior to the Arival of the Europeans. Todays history teachers say so. "sarcasm"
THE HEADHUNTERS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.
If you get time, read about North American's only Headhunters, the Kwakiutl Indians who lived on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest.