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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It is worth noting that Cortez and his 300 odd men didn’t topple the Aztec empire alone. They had a lot of help from the tribes who were victimized by them.
Gotta ask, are those guys straight outta Compton, South Chicago, Arizona State University, or just out of a DNC election fraud meeting with the Nancy and Sch@#$ ?
I thought the native tribes were all love and sugar and it was the Europeans who broght death and destruction to this hemisphere!!!
Do we need to them reparations too?
Oh bullcrap. They did not rape their way through Mexico. The Christianized the savages and took wives among them and stayed. Conquistadors were brave men and did a good thing for the world.
OG thugs from back in the day.....WAY BACK
My father used to yell at me, “Hey Whatsamatteryou??
You got a hole in your head?”
They got their protein from human flesh. Just the way it turned out down there. These were stone age people living in a bizarre world.
Yes they did. History documents that they did. That is one of the main reasons the indians rose up and threw the Spaniards out of Mexico with a priest, Miguel Hidalgo, leading the way. He himself had an indian mistress and many children by her. Read the history books.
I’m of German ancestry so our sacrifices were more recent.
Que up ‘Those were the days’
Then he wasn't raping lots of other women, most likely.
Having a mistress or concubine or several has been common throughout most of history, for men in charge.
... wondered when they had found the time to kill all those people and whether they would get paid for it.
“Ethnic studies”?
Is that the same as Nazi “race studies”?
Only in some minds, friend.
Not in mine.
You’re not wrong… sadly…
“You said they wanted equality.” [clunk]
Go back far enough and look hard enough and you'll find everybody descends from savages. Just a matter of style and degree.
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