Posted on 04/28/2022 10:25:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital.
It turns out it was a very cold case.
It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.
Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed through each side of every skull, and were usually found in ceremonial plazas, not caves.
But experts said Wednesday the victims in the cave had probably been ritually decapitated and the skulls put on display on a kind of trophy rack known as a "tzompantli." Spanish conquistadores wrote about seeing such racks in the 1520s, and some Spaniards' heads even wound up on them.
While usually strung on wooden poles using holes bashed through them - the common practice among the Aztecs and other cultures - experts say the cave skulls may have rested atop poles, rather than being strung on them.
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The Spanish were absolutely horrified by what they saw...it is in their writings of the time. They described beautiful towns with flowers adorning everything, but everywhere there was the stench of the decaying bodies of those sacrificed to their “gods”.
I would say I’m of Mayan descent, not Aztec...
I liked that movie once he escaped.
No wonder God used the Spaniards to destroy their culture and wipe it from the face of the earth.
Graphic as hell.
However one of Mel’s better efforts IMO.
but the “evil white europeans” were savages, right?
The religion of pieces and ramabomb wasn’t even invented yet...
It’s hard to end a cult completely when you adopt syncretism and incorporate the cult into the local church.
They must have been very busy guys.
Reminds me of the Vietnamese ritual show confessionals: "I raped 27 peasant girls every night..."
The Aztecs were definitely the worst and their penchant for modifying their teeth persists in the Mexicans of today.
Some things never change…. Could be a 1000 years ago or last week
Part of our local school district’s CRT curriculum:
Rethinking Ethnic Studies Rethinking Ethnic Studies brings together many of the leading teachers, activists, and scholars in this movement to offer examples of Ethnic Studies frameworks, classroom practices, and organizing at the school, district, and statewide levels. Built around core themes of indigeneity, colonization, anti-racism, and activism, Rethinking Ethnic Studies offers vital resources for educators committed to the ongoing struggle for racial justice in our schools.
Colonization is bad unless you are a woman getting your head cut off
Now that’s a cold case.
I agree with you here.
We have high volume mounds (even artistic mounding, in some cases in the shape of serpants) all over North America, and the US, where we know there volume partially consists of bones from mass “genocidal type” deaths - men, women, and children.
Not all the same groups either.
If I came upon human sacrifice, including wen and children, I would wipe out all involved.
yes, even then, there was a war on boys and men.....
Agree with you as well.
There is always a nexus.
Cause and consequence.
The victims must have been unvaxxed.
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