Ah, dude, did you hear about these events.
Posted on 12/03/2004 4:14:00 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
Mexican tomb reveals gruesome human sacrifice
18:46 03 December 04
NewScientist.com news service
Evidence of a grisly human sacrifice and a complex military infrastructure has emerged from an excavation of the ruins of a pyramid in the 2000-year-old city of Teotihuacan in Mexico.
A vault containing 12 bodies, ten of which had been decapitated, along with the remains of pumas, wolves and eagles were discovered at the city's central structure, the Pyramid of the Moon.
"What we have found in this excavation suggests that a certain kind of mortuary ritual took place inside the tomb before it was filled in," says Saburo Sugiyama of the University of Japan, in Aichi, who coordinated the archaeological dig with Ruben Cabrera of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
"It is hard to believe that the ritual consisted of clean symbolic performances," Sugiyama adds. "It is most likely that the ceremony created a horrible scene of bloodshed with sacrificed people and animals."
Birthplace of gods
Teotihuacan is located 25 miles north of Mexico City and predates the Aztec civilisation by around 700 years. The city’s name, meaning “City of the Gods”, was given by the Aztecs, who believed their gods to have been born there.
The tomb is the fifth chamber to be discovered within the pyramid - and is buried within the fifth of seven construction layers added onto the original pyramid as the city expanded. Shell pendants, blades and the points of projectile weapons such as arrows and spears were also found alongside the bodies.
Sugiyama suggests that the weaponry and remains of powerful animals linked with the headless bodies are "highly symbolic objects [which] suggest that the government wanted to symbolise expanding sacred political power and perhaps the importance of military institutions with the new monument".
Peaceful people
Mike Smith at State University of New York in Albany, US, says the find is particularly significant because relatively little is known about high-level political organisation in Teotihuacan. It also firmly contradicts earlier theories that Mexican civilisations were relatively peaceful and theocratic during this period.
"This is the second significant find of sacrifice at Teotihuacan," Smith told New Scientist. "Nobody can say that this was just a one off."
But another artefact discovered in the mausoleum presents a puzzle. The mosaic of a human figure - possibly a Mayan - was found at the centre of several large knives. It has artistic features not seen elsewhere in Mesoamerica and has political relevance, as some of the knives included the form of a feathered serpent - known to be associated with political authority.
Another tomb containing the remains of four men was found within the same layer of the pyramid in 2002. Isotopic analysis suggests two the men buried there were Teotihuacans while two were foreigners.
Will Knight
Of course, Zarqawi and his ilk would have fit right in.
Ping.
What the Raza-Nazis, mechistas and reconquistas want to return Atzlan to.
One would like to think otherwise; but ...
*All-Cultures-Are-Equal* alert
*All-Cultures-Are-Equal* alert
Right. Even now, I sense that certain feminist members of NOW are preparing to emigrate to muslim countries, secure in the knowledge that the practices of clitorectomy and abuse of women are just 'different-but-equally-valid' expressions of the basic goodness of all people.
Would you like to make a wager about that? LOL
Uh, I'm a little short of cash right now...you understand, right? (laugh)
Ah, dude, did you hear about these events.
Yep. I was referring only to the nostalgia for the simple savage that some people for some reason feel.
Early American Islam.
Wasn't it the Aztecs that would sacrifice hundreds of people each day to make sure the sun came up the next morning?
Has anyone asked Bill Clinton how sexy he find's these human sacrifices? We all know that he has a proclivity for early teen South American mummy girls.
Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid
Yahoo Reuters ^ | 12/2/2004 | Brian Winter
Posted on 12/02/2004 5:58:20 PM PST by Betis70
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That was just the way they probably handled their illegal aliens at that time.
Who cares who it was, it worked didn't it! Kind of like global warming. Who cares if it is true or not, it keeps the money flowing in for all the "save the Earth" groups.
And do you think if we sacraficed hundreds of global warming faithful each day that global warming would eventually go away?
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