Ancient Tomb Found in Mexico Reveals Mass Child Sacrifice

National Geographic ^ | June 12, 2007 | Kelly Hearn

[NYer]

Bones of an ancient child-sacrifice victim are displayed in Tula, Mexico, April 19, 2007. The discovery of 24 children's skeletons in a mass grave at Tula may be the first evidence that the ancient Toltec civilization sacrificed children, according to archaeologist Luis Gamboa. The bones, dating from A.D. 950 to 1150, indicate that the children had been decapitated in a group, he said.

[NYer]

Ping!

[edcoil]

Look 5 posts ahead of you.

[ghost of nixon]

Evidence suggests the children sacrificed to Tlaloc were in very poor health when they died and that the sacrifices were not punitive, she added

what is this supposed to mean? That we shouldn't be judgemental about a culture who beheads 24 children to appease a fickle rain-god?

[KingSnorky]

I didn’t realize Planned Parenthood has been around that long.

[P8riot]

Ancient Tomb Found in Mexico Reveals Mass Child Sacrifice

And the words "Planned Parenthood" were over the door.

[blasater1960]

Al-Queda in the new world, that far back?

[blam]

Their god wanted them to sacrifice the ones who have no say over who is sacrificed...funny how that worked all over the world.

[BlabItGrabIt]

That religion is alive and well, today—using abortion clinics as their alters...

[NYer]

what is this supposed to mean?

A feeble attempt by the MSM to link the slaughter of 24 sick children 1000 years ago with the contemporary notion of euthanasia. It was barbaric then; nothing has changed.

[NCBraveheart]

The earliest Planned Parenthood Center

[JamesP81]

We still have this practice in modern times. Just because our bloodthirsty barbarians wear a white coat and are called “Doctor” doesn’t make them any less a barbarian.

[Cicero]

Evidence suggests the children sacrificed to Tlaloc were in very poor health when they died and that the sacrifices were not punitive, she added

I think this has less to do with excusing euthanasia than with preserving multiculturalism. They want to make the sacrificers somehow seem nicer and kinder than they actually were.

The fact is that most, if not all, of the Indians living in South America before the age of exploration seem to have been cruel and brutal. It's not a racial thing; other people have been cruel and brutal too. The Phoenicians, who otherwise had a high trading and exploring civilization, sacrificed their first-born children to Baal Moloch, for instance.

But the inconvenient fact for multiculturalism is that when Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared and millions of Indians were converted to Christianity, there was a vast improvement in their culture. South American Indian culture is still pretty rough, and constantly roiled by populists and Marxists who play on their resentments, but inconceivably better than it was before their conversion from the old religions. But no true multiculturalist can admit that.

[wildbill]

Post-birth abortions to appease the Women’s Libbers of that day.

[SunkenCiv]

Ancient Tomb Found in Mexico Reveals Mass Child Sacrifice (At least they didn’t throw theirs away?)
National Geographic | 6-12-07 | Kelly Hearn
Posted on 06/13/2007 10:55:30 AM EDT by Bladerunnuh
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849516/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NYer. Just adding, not bumping, duplicate.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[RipSawyer]

Their god wanted them to sacrifice the ones who have no say over who is sacrificed...funny how that worked all over the world.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Yep, them gods was shore nuff dependable, don’t think I ever heered tell o’ one that told the priest to cut his own danged throat!

[billygoatgruff]

Maybe children weren’t qualified for foodstamps or additional welfare to parents and therefore considered useless eaters.

Sad though.

[rottndog]

VIVA LA RAZA!!!

[livius]

There was never any question about this - until now. The Spanish were horrified by the Indian sacrifices and ritual cannibalism and reported on it at great length. Even some of the Indians appear to have been a little horrified, and it is certainly one of the things that accounted for the rapid spread of Christianity in Mexico and Indian lands.

One of my kids went to high school in California in the early 80s and brought home a text book that said that the Aztecs were way ahead of Europeans in everything and that Europeans destroyed a kind, intelligent and peace-loving culture...yuck! So the Aztecs had a calendar. Many other peoples did, too, but by that time, Christianity and Judaism had educated them out of offering up their babies to placate the wrathful gods. Not to mention the fact that the Aztecs were so brutal that other Indian groups actually helped the Spanish take them down.

One of the best remarks about missionary activity I ever heard was someone who said, about missionary activity to an indigenous group in the Pacific Islands, “well, it delivered them from fear.” Primitive pre-Christian peoples live in fear of the world around them, and Christianity delivers them from that fear.