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Aztec Death Whistles Sound like Human Screams and May Have Been Used as Psychological Warfare
Ancient Origins ^ | Updated on 11/17/2020 | Liz Leafloor

Posted on 11/18/2020 3:56:49 AM PST by LibWhacker

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To: Larry Lucido; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Larry Lucido. Sounds like something the DNC would like.

21 posted on 11/18/2020 8:02:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: broken_clock

Better than drums even!


22 posted on 11/18/2020 8:03:50 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t think I would have liked to have an Aztecan whistle at me as I walked down the street. That was...umm...unsettling.

‘Face

:o|


23 posted on 11/18/2020 8:18:56 AM PST by Monkey Face (You've never once washed your hands. They wash each other while you stand there staring at them.)
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To: Yardstick
More death-centric arts & crafts from our mostly peaceful pals the Aztecs.
24 posted on 11/18/2020 8:20:40 AM PST by null and void (Rob a bank or steal an election, and get caught, do you get to keep the money or the votes?)
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To: Yardstick

Yep. Terrible society with the ugliest art I’ve ever seen.


25 posted on 11/18/2020 8:31:25 AM PST by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: LibWhacker

“I want to play you the song of my people.”


26 posted on 11/18/2020 9:39:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: rarestia
"Otherwise it just sounds like a beat up old truck with a squeaky belt."

I had a VW that had a compressor belt that would occasionally squeal. Every so often it would give off this high-pitched screech, and people's heads would turn to see what was making the noise. My son said it sounded like the alien Queen in the movie "Alien."

27 posted on 11/18/2020 10:07:20 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: LibWhacker

That really is eye-opening. What kind of ghoul would want to make that sound? It adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of those murderous monsters.

F the Aztecs, now and forever, and double F any modern human who glorifies them.


28 posted on 11/18/2020 10:34:25 AM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: Red Badger

May it be so again this January.


29 posted on 11/18/2020 12:05:43 PM PST by Kommodor (Make America Detroit Again - Vote Democrat! :P)
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To: LibWhacker

That is one scary noise-both my cats jumped off the desk and ran under it when it played-it would certainly make an attacking enemy think twice...

Like most American Hispanics whose ancestors came to what was New Spain, I have traceable Native American DNA, too-some of it certainly came from Aztecs or some other tribe in Mexico-and that’s okay- my “civilized” Spanish ancestors at that time were doing the rape-and-pillage thing everywhere they landed, not to mention the ever-popular Spanish inquisition-so both my old and new world ancestors were a bloodthirsty, cruel bunch, like all humans were at some point in the past-murder is murder, no matter what method/justification it is given...

Now I’ve got to have one of those whistles-might keep the coyotes and other predators away-pardon me while I go sharpen my obsidian knife-no enemies around so a chicken will be the blood sacrifice...


30 posted on 11/18/2020 12:33:16 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: dsc

I take it that you don’t have any Native American or Spanish ancestors-they all met the modern day definition of ghouls...


31 posted on 11/18/2020 12:35:21 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: LibWhacker

Cool. One’s in my Amazon cart.


32 posted on 11/18/2020 1:14:36 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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I’m going there now to get one-I hope it doesn’t spook horses-some of my neighbors have them-I’ll be sure to ask...


33 posted on 11/18/2020 1:49:16 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

I dispute the notion that Indian and Spanish ancestry disqualify me from criticizing the Aztecs.


34 posted on 11/18/2020 2:42:13 PM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: dsc

I have both Native and Spanish ancestry-and I criticize both those ethnic groups-my point is that both were barbaric, cruel and bloodthirsty-the Spaniards were just more advanced in their methods of torture and murder and had more sophisticated justification for their atrocities-but both were brutal...


35 posted on 11/18/2020 3:50:52 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

The Spaniards weren’t as bad as “The Black Legend” would have it.


36 posted on 11/18/2020 3:53:38 PM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: dsc

Of course not-propaganda put out by enemies is always worse than the real events-The Black Legend was mixed up and baked by Spain’s European enemies because they were the premier power in Europe at the time-and everyone else wanted to grab off some of their territory in the New World-complete with gold and silver mines, captured Native American tribal treasure, slaves, etc-but even without all the sensational propaganda, the Spanish were still more brutal than most-both they and the Italians-they learned centuries before from the Romans who conquered them- when I think of a brutal conqueror, it is a tie between Attila the Hun and Hernan Cortez-with Julius Caesar a close 3d...


37 posted on 11/18/2020 4:53:58 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: LibWhacker

It could also be used as a murder hornet call during hunting season.


38 posted on 11/18/2020 5:08:04 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Texan5

The Spaniards had just spent 400 years getting the Muslims out of their country when they met up with the Aztecs.


39 posted on 11/18/2020 5:11:56 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Texan5

I think Cortez gets a bad rap. The Aztecs were horrible.


40 posted on 11/18/2020 5:24:24 PM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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