Posted on 10/09/2015 1:45:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 1520, a Spanish-led supply convoy that may have consisted of as many as 550 people, including Cubans of African and Indian descent, women, and Indian allies of the Spaniards, was captured and taken to a town inhabited by the Aztec-allied Texcocanos, or Acolhuas. The town is now known as Zultepec-Tecoaque, an archaeological site east of Mexico City. Excavations have uncovered carved clay figurines of the invaders that the Texcocanos had symbolically decapitated. Human and animal bones with cut marks have also been found, indicating that the members of the convoy and their horses were actually sacrificed and eaten. The pigs, however, were killed and left whole. The townspeople hid the remains of the convoy in shallow wells and abandoned the town. "They heard that [Cortes] was coming for them, and what they did was hide everything. If they hadn't done that, we wouldn't have found these things," government archaeologist Enrique Martinez told the Associated Press. Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs the following year.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
Mexican site yields new details of sacrifice of Spaniards
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mexican-site-yields-sacrifice-spaniards.html
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Celebrating diversity Aztec style.
Travel is almost as bad today
I have an idea on how to handle the illegal immigrants ....
There were Africans in Cuba?
They or their forebears were brought over as slaves.
Well, before he went he left a note with the company secretary, the effect of which was how disappointed he was with your work and, in particular, why you had changed the name from Conquistador Instant Coffee to Conquistador Instant Leprosy
Yes, and the Aztecs were obviously racist. I wonder what the thought of the curry brought by the Indian-Cubans?
It was said that Montezuma sacrificed 20,000 at his Coronation. Meat for the feast.
“Conquistador” - Procol Harum
Conquistador your stallion stands
in need of company
and like some angel’s haloed brow
you reek of purity
I see your armour-plated breast
has long since lost its sheen
and in your death mask face
there are no signs which can be seen
And though I hoped for something
to find
I could see no maze to unwind
Conquistador a vulture sits
upon your silver shield
and in your rusty scabbard now
the sand has taken seed
and though your jewel-encrusted blade
has not been plundered still
the sea has washed across your face
and taken of its fill
And though I hoped for something
to find
I could see no maze to unwind
Conquistador there is no time
I must pay my respect
and though I came to jeer at you
I leave now with regret
and as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no, only all
and though you came with sword held high
you did not conquer, only die
And though I hoped for something
to find
I could see no maze to unwind
And for dessert, lady fingers!
Thanks! Would it be racist to say I’m glad I don’t have ancestors from Mexico/South America?
Seems a bit early.
If the Aztecs were around today, the liberals would be telling us to respect “diversity” and inclusion, and let them eat whoever they wanted to.
Convoy?
Diez Cuatro, Pato de goma...
I would think corn bread was to soak up the juices. The problem with corn is that you cannot make a descent gravy.
As I remember it, Cortez, upon entering Tenochtitlan, found a wall made of the skulls from that one extra-festive Aztec event: 5 skulls wide, 10 skulls high, 400 skulls long.
I have a friend, who is dark black, from Cuba.
Bitches all the time about his work here.
I joke he can always go back and live in that Caste “so called” Society.....
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