[blueunicorn6]

The Mexicans were cannibals?

Maybe that’s why cutting off people’s heads is no big deal for them.

Build a wall. Build it high and wide.

[marktwain]

The Mexicans were cannibals?

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It wasn’t just the Aztecs (Mexicans). Cannibalism was rampant all through the area.

“Progressives” have written it out of the history books.

[PUGACHEV]

Yes, the Mexican were cannibals. At one of their earlier meetings, Montezuma threatened to eat Cortez with mole, which was apparently the preferred sauce for human flesh.

Bernal Diaz' book is a gem, but by no means the only first person account of the conquest. Cortez in his long letters (Relations)) to Charles V, and an anonymous history by "The Unknown Conquistador" are both eyewitness accounts. One thing concerning Diaz del Castillo seldom mentioned is that he was apparently a sorcerer. He wrote that he was forewarned of the Noche Triste, among other event, by a "familiar spirit".

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The Mexicans were cannibals?

Cannibalism was part of the religious rituals. It also happened during time of war (in a ritual context).

Maybe that’s why cutting off people’s heads is no big deal for them.

A lot has changed in 500 years. Go back far enough and who knows what one's ancestors were up to.