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Posted on 03/30/2026 5:01:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
La Brújula Verde reports that work along the route of a passenger train uncovered an altar, or momoztli, in central Mexico near the site of Tula, the ancient Toltec capital. The momoztli has been dated to between A.D. 900 and 1150. Archaeologist Víctor Francisco Heredia Guillén of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said that the structure had at least three tiers. The first tier is a stone base thought to be made of andesite, a type of volcanic rock. These blocks are each about four inches long. The next tier consists of slabs made of the same material, while the upper tier features several rounded stones and basalt rock. Two skulls were uncovered near the altar's base. Beneath the skulls, the researchers found a compacted stucco surface, under which they discovered another two skulls and several large bones. A black bowl containing another vessel, other ceramic vessels, and obsidian fragments and blades were also unearthed. Heredia Guillén said that the bones will be analyzed for age, sex, and health status at the time of death. Scientists will also look for any cut marks or evidence of decapitation on the bones. The excavation of the altar also revealed evidence of a larger structure surrounding it, suggesting that the altar may have been placed in a courtyard. "We suppose these were either rooms or an elite context, or groups of higher hierarchy, remains of palaces that may have existed at the site. We know that at the edges of Tula there were neighborhoods of upper and middle classes, and much farther away, those of common people," Heredia Guillén concluded. To read more about Tula, go to "Mexico's Butterfly Warriors."
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Offerings of human bones, ceramic vessels, and obsidian fragments were buried at the base of an altar outside the Tula Archaeological Zone, Hidalgo, Mexico.Gerardo Peña, INAH
The Toltecs superseded the Shortecs.
Cortez should be named a saint for crushing the devil-worshiping, human sacrificing animals that reveled in human suffering and blood.
Given the standard mezo-american indian practices they will probably find indications of decapitation. (The skull in the picture had a good set of teeth.)
I read the English version of Cortez’ account.
As they approached the city, they saw what they thought was a red mountain.
I was a pyramid...The red was blood from the sacrifices.
The Aztec’s own history records how many 10s of thousands on certain days the killed for their god.
Cortez was able to defeat the Aztecs only with the help of the other ethnic groups in central Mexico who hated the Aztecs. They may not have been very happy with Spanish rule but at least the Spanish weren’t taking their people for human sacrifices.
Too sick, too depraved, too hated, and too primitive to last. Like an impressive 52-story wood building standing up to a JDAM.
And before we call our glorious Greco-Roman past objectively more humane and kind... well, I think there is a building in Rome or 2 standing as testaments to brutality and sadism.
He was far from a saint-more like just another monster from a different place-the Spanish were my ancestors-they were not nice people-I don’t think most Spaniards in Spain are nice people now. Cortez may have stopped the pagan human sacrifices-but he also brought the Spanish Inquisition to the new world to replace it. Cortez was in a feud with the governor of Cuba when he sailed to Mexico, for defying the gov’s orders, too. And that was before he took the 14 or 15 year old daughter of a Native chief who was an enemy of the Aztecs-she was supposed to be his interpreter, but he made her his mistress and impregnated her-a really nice guy...
The Inquisition used torture to a slow, terrible death to get rid of any “heretics”-that means anybody that said a wrong word to a priest, no matter who you were. They also taught the Native Americans several brand new methods of torture used in Europe that were slower and more agonizing than the cutting out of hearts, etc. There weren’t any nice people anywhere back then by our modern standards-brutal times...
True-but the Spanish brought the Inquisition over to deal with the Natives and all other “heretics” by torture and burning at the stake...
Not just Rome-the Druids in Britain put people in wicker cages suspended over a fire to roast as a sacrifice. In Norway, people were sacrificed by slow strangulation and being tossed in a bog, the Vikings raped and strangled a female slave as a sacrifice and set her off in the funeral boat with the dead war leader who owned her. Etc, etc, etc...
Yeah, i read Cortez’s account. Don’t underestimate the Conquistador’s toughness though. They (100-200 men) had to fight their way OUT of the capital city - surrounded by tens of thousands of Aztec warriors.
Dude, did you ever read about Samson?
He wasn’t a nice guy, but he was used to bring judgment on the Philistines.
I agree, Spaniards are dicks but Aztecs were a-holes. It takes a dick to take out an a*hole.
I’m not a dude-I’m a female-and Hernan Cortez was not comparable to a biblical character-he was just a run-of-the-mill Spaniard...
like I said-there were no nice people in brutal times-the Spanish in Spain are still not nice people, but the rest of us have obviously mellowed somewhat over the last 500+ years-we can’t chose our ancestors...
Cultural relativism, the belief that all cultures are equal is one of the most pernicious lies that it was ever forced upon us. Western civilization has led to the thriving of the planet like unseen, ever before. I’m glad the Aztecs were annihilated. Sweet justice.
I read somewhere that in the New World the Inquisition did not have any natives put to death for heresy (they may have done that to Spanish immigrants or those of entirely Spanish ancestry). I guess they made allowances for the natives’ ability to absorb the fine points of dogma.
One of the young soldiers involved in the conquest was Juan Cabrillo, later the first European to explore the coast of California.
As Tacitus has the Briton Calgacus say, “The Romans create a desert and call it peace.” Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in the 50s B.C. may have cost 1 million Gauls their lives. They were ruthless to others who resisted their conquests including the Spanish, the Greeks and the Jews. Earlier the Greeks were pretty ruthless killing or enslaving defeated enemies, whether Greeks or barbarians.
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