[SunkenCiv]

"Mexico's 2,000 year-old 'Pyramid of the Moon' may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifice" -- whaaaat?!?!? Call Sixty Minutes! ;')

This structure is (today) attributed to the Toltecs. According to the Spanish, the Aztecs had no accurate idea of who built the complex. Bernal Diaz records that a dramatic getaway resulted from a lucky shot as a battle was about to begin at the site, during the retreat of Cortez back to the coast after their harrowing escape from Tenochtitlan.

Speakin' of which... there was a structure in Tenochtitlan that ran nearly the length of the great plaza, and which the Aztecs referred to as "the corncrib". It was filled with human heads, untold thousands of them, and near the end of its existence, some of those heads were from recently deceased members of Cortez' expedition.

Aztec society was (like its predecessors in MesoAmerica) bloodthirsty to a degree seldom seen anywhere in world history (prior to the rise of the Marxist-Leninist culture). It must have been lousy with PTSD cases.

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[SunkenCiv]

http://www.cyberpais.org/history/malinche.html

[ValerieUSA]

Thanks for the ping.
I am amazed at the ignorance of a scholar or expert who could be shocked at the discovery of evidence of human sacrifice anywhere in Mexico, Central or South America.

[Al Simmons]

Quite true. The Romans had the culture of the Colliseum, but the vast majority of those who died there were criminals, weren't they?

I think the Aztecs believed that without the endless blood sacrifices the sun would stop rising and the world would end.