[Rummyfan]

A few years back while on vacation in Honduras, I had the immense pleasure of touring the Mayan ruins in Copan. With the information being supplied by an English speaking guide, I learned that the Mayans were quite ingenious when it came to dealing out pain, torture and death on other people they had captured.

I visited Tikal in Guatemala and got the same lecture I think. For such an 'advanced' civilization they certainly had a strong bloodlust, and the practice of human sacrifice was commonplace.

Oh, and they were long gone by the time the Spanish arrived.

[painter]

Oh, and they were long gone by the time the Spanish arrived.

They may have,but the Aztecs were here and they were as bad or worse. Aztec priests would drag some poor fool up the steps of their pyramid lay him out on an alter hold him down while another one would take a razer sharp obsidian (black glass like stone) knife and cut his beating heart out. Afterwords the rest of the crowd there would EAT what was left of him. Cortez wrote of this in his diary when he conquered Latin America.