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The real charge of heresy is that of Catholics who are offended at any correspondence btwn pagans consuming their dead in order to obtain their spirit or qualifies, and that of Catholics imagining the like.More research"

In endocannibalism, typically or often, it was believed that the, "ritual consumption of parts of the human body enables the consumer to acquire something of the body's vital energy" (I.M. Lewis, "Religion in context, cults and charisma, P. 73, quoted in "Culture in the Domains of Law" edited by René Provost, P. 338) Which can include the consumption of enemies killed in war, whereby, "The eating of flesh, especially organs, serves to absorb the power of their victims and thus to enhanced their own strength." (Denis Tull, Ibid) All of which is consistent with the conclusion that endocannibalism recycles and regenerates social forces that are believed to be physically constituted in bodily substances or bones." (Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ibid) Through absorption and incorporation, the eaten is not simply devoured and annihilated, but rather becomes integrated in some way with the eater. Provost, Ibid, P. 339) )

Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) mentioned before, of questionable veracity also states,

The custom of eating bread sacramentally as the body of a god was practised by the Aztecs before the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards." The May ceremony is thus described by the historian Acosta [José de Acosta, SJ (1539 or 1540) Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America]: “
“The Mexicans in the month of May made their principal feast to their god Vitzilipuztli,...all the virgins came out of their convent, bringing pieces of paste compounded of beets and roasted maize,... They called these morsels of paste the flesh and bones of Vitzilipuztli...This ceremony and blessing (whereby they were taken for the flesh and bones of the idol) being ended, they honoured those pieces in the same sort as their god...

And this should be eaten at the point of day, and they should drink no water nor any other thing till after noon: they held it for an ill sign, yea, for sacrilege to do the contrary:...and then they gave them to the people in manner of a communion, beginning with the greater, and continuing unto the rest, both men, women, and little children, who received it with such tears, fear, and reverence as it was an admirable thing, saying that they did eat the flesh and bones of God, where-with they were grieved. Such as had any sick folks demanded thereof for them, and carried it with great reverence and veneration.”

...They believed that by consecrating bread their priests could turn it into the very body of their god, so that all who thereupon partook of the consecrated bread entered into a mystic communion with the deity by receiving a portion of his divine substance into themselves....

The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the magical conversion of bread into flesh, was also familiar to the Aryans of ancient India long before the spread and even the rise of Christianity. The Brahmans taught that the rice-cakes offered in sacrifice were substitutes for human beings, and that they were actually converted into the real bodies of men by the manipulation of the priest....At the festival of the winter solstice in December the Aztecs killed their god Huitzilopochtli in effigy first and ate him afterwards. - http://www.bartleby.com/196/121.html

Mormonism has an interest in this: http://archive.timesandseasons.org/2005/07/endocannibalism-in-sacrament-meeting/ ; http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1604Acos.htm

Another precise correspondence is the practice of fleeing to the summits of pyramids as places of last defense and, consequently, of eventual surrender. Conquered cities were depicted in Mesoamerica by symbols for broken towers or burning pyramids. Mormon records this practice.[29] Other practices of his day were human sacrifice and cannibalism, vile behaviors well attested for Mesoamerica (see Mormon 4:14; Moroni 9:8, 10). [29] For towers as the last refuge in battle, see Alma 50:4; 51:20; Moroni 9:7. Compare with Fray Diego Durán, The Aztecs: The History of the Indies of New Spain, trans. Doris Heyden and Fernando Horcasitas (New York: Orion Press, 1964), 68: "The Tecpanecs, retreating toward their city, intended to use their temple as a last stronghold, but Tlacaelel [an Aztec leader] reached the temple before them and, taking possession of its entrance, ordered one of his men to set it on fire, having made prisoner all those who were within." Durán, p. 89: "When we reach Totoltzinco the king of Texcoco will set fire to the temple and the battle will come to an end."

Alma 51:20

20 And the remainder of those dissenters, rather than be smitten down to the earth by the sword, yielded to the standard of liberty, and were compelled to hoist the ^atitle of liberty upon their towers, and in their cities, and to take up arms in defence of their country.

Alma 50:4
4 And he caused towers to be erected that overlooked those works of pickets, and he caused places of security to be built upon those ^atowers, that the stones and the arrows of the Lamanites could not hurt them.

Mormon 4:14
14 And they did also march forward against the city Teancum, and did drive the inhabitants forth out of her, and did take many prisoners both women and children, and did offer them up as ^asacrifices unto their idol gods.

Moroni 9:7-10
7 And now I write somewhat concerning the sufferings of this people. For according to the knowledge which I have received from Amoron, behold, the Lamanites have many prisoners, which they took from the tower of Sherrizah; and there were men, women, and children.
8 And the husbands and fathers of those women and children they have slain; and they feed the women upon the ^aflesh of their husbands, and the children upon the flesh of their fathers; and no water, save a little, do they give unto them.
9 And notwithstanding this great ^aabomination of the Lamanites, it doth not exceed that of our people in Moriantum. For behold, many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken prisoners; and after ^bdepriving them of that which was most dear and precious above all things, which is ^cchastity and ^dvirtue—
10 And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most ^acruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts; and they do it for a token of bravery.