Posted on 04/17/2007 9:03:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The grisly find of the buried bones of 24 pre-Hispanic Mexican children may be the first evidence that the ancient Toltec civilization sacrificed children, an archeologist studying the remains said on Monday. The bones, dating from 950 AD to 1150 AD and dug up at the Toltecs' former capital Tula, north of present day Mexico City, indicated the children had been decapitated in a group. The way the children, aged between 5 and 15, were placed in the grave, and the fact they were buried with a figurine of Tlaloc, the God of rain, also pointed to a group sacrifice, archeologist Luis Gamboa said... The children's bones were discovered by accident at the end of March by construction workers deepening the foundations of an office building in Tula, outside the archeological zone. "In terms of children, it can be considered one of the first discoveries (in Toltec culture)," Gamboa said, adding that the children were likely brought in from other parts of Mexico.
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I, for one, welcome our Aztlan Overlords.
I worship at the altar of diversity.
There was a lot of that old Moloch/Pan/Saturn in most cultures in the good old days. Some cultures still have the practice albeit in a more modern form.
Ahh, yes. Another example of the nobility and wisdom of our nature-worshipping ancestors.
...and for dessert, lady fingers!
Dry Spell Linked to Demise of the MayanKonrad A. Hughen, a geochemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said sediments from the Cariaco Basin in northern Venezuela clearly record a long dry siege that struck the entire Caribbean starting in about the seventh century and lasting more than 100 years. Within this dry period, said Hughen, there were years of virtually no rainfall. It was in those periods of extra dryness, he said, that the Mayan civilization went through a series of collapses before its final demise... The civilization collapsed and many of the sites were abandoned early in the 800s. They were later reoccupied only to collapse again, with some cities deserted in 860 and others in 910... A severe dry spell in 910, he said, "was the last straw."
by Paul Recer
Thu Mar 13, 2003 5:27 PM ET
You know of course the white guys were doing witch burning about the same time.
MMMMMMMM BBQ sandWITCH. My favorite.
nice folks.
Right on. All kneel to feminism's sacred "right to choose."
There’s a world of difference between Toltecs destroying children and the exagerrated claims of witch burnings.
And by the way what we do today with abortions - infanticide - is far far more evil than any witch burnings.
Some apologists for Native American culture and the practice of human sacrifice have claimed that the people went willingly to their deaths as part of their religion’s belief in the benefits of sacrifice and the honor of being a sacrifice.
Could be true. Look at the jihadist human bombs of today. They sacrifice their lives to take the lives of others for their version of religious doctrine.
On the other hand, most religious sacrifices of humans in other cultures don’t require the murder of innocents simultaneously. Even the Kamikaze of Japan were directed against armed opponents, and I doubt that any attack on innocents would have complied with their honor code of Bushido.
Yeah, sorta like the Celts and their Druids.
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