[Hot Tabasco]

A few years back while on vacation in Honduras, I had the immense pleasure of touring the Mayan ruins in Copan. With the information being supplied by an English speaking guide, I learned that the Mayans were quite ingenious when it came to dealing out pain, torture and death on other people they had captured.

Lets just say they weren't the friendly Mertz family living next door........

[Rummyfan]

A few years back while on vacation in Honduras, I had the immense pleasure of touring the Mayan ruins in Copan. With the information being supplied by an English speaking guide, I learned that the Mayans were quite ingenious when it came to dealing out pain, torture and death on other people they had captured.

I visited Tikal in Guatemala and got the same lecture I think. For such an 'advanced' civilization they certainly had a strong bloodlust, and the practice of human sacrifice was commonplace.

Oh, and they were long gone by the time the Spanish arrived.

[montag813]

I learned that the Mayans were quite ingenious when it came to dealing out pain, torture and death on other people they had captured.

The so-called "ancestors" who are screaming racism over "Apocalypto" describe Mayans as if they were Hare Krishnas. It is just ridiculous. It was one of the most brutal savage regimes in human history. Unfortunately for these liars, the Mayans also carved their own brutality in stone for history to see.

[RobbyS]

The usual story is that the Mayan relgion ws not as bloodthirsty is the Aztec. Indeed, it is claimed that the Spanish story about the Aztecs was a lie. But the temples in Mexico smelled like slaughter houses, and horrified even soldiers hardened in war with the Moors.