Posted on 04/12/2007 2:23:37 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Archaeologists have discovered new evidence to suggest ancient Mexicans brought human sacrifice victims from locations hundreds of miles away.
New evidence has been found to suggest ancient Mexicans could have brought people hundreds of miles for use as human sacrifices.
Archaeologists examined the DNA of the skeletons of 50 sacrificial victims found at the Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacan ruins in Mexico, finding that they may have originated from Mayan, Pacific or Atlantic areas hundreds of miles away.
Experts believe that the bodies could have been decapitated between 50 and 500 AD, while the pyramid was being built.
Ruben Cabrara, in charge of the site's excavation, explained that the victims may have been captured in battle: "Teotihuacan may have had a tradition of capturing prisoners for sacrifice.
"Researchers always tried to throw a little fog over it, but there was human sacrifice even if we don't know if it had to do with wars," he said.
Teotihuacan, meaning 'the place where gods are made' in the Aztec's Nahuatl language, is thought to be Mexico's oldest archaeological site.
Things haven't changed that much in Old Mexico!
Just doing the job that Mexicans aren’t willing to do.
“Things haven’t changed that much in Old Mexico!”
No kidding. I just recently saw a TV show about terrible things that have happened at students’ “spring break.” One of the episodes detailed how a spring breaker was kidnapped and sacrificed by Mexicans in a pagan ritual. On further investigation (if my memory serves me right), I believe eight additional bodies were discovered.
No kidding. My Mayan guide said that only the Aztecs were meanies, the rest of it is just oppressive white man stories.
And yet white Americans are the only folks in this country expected to be ashamed about the past.
I have never denied that the Europeans and Americans wronged the natives of the Americas. I have always denied that the natives were peace-loving people living in harmony with nature.
A note: Despite liberal vilification of the Pilgrims and glorification of the Indians, the Pilgrims lived in peace and friendship with the Indians for fifty years. The peace was broken by the Indians.
The other meso-americans resented being kidnapped and murdered wholesale, so when Europeans arrived the locals were only too glad to help them conquer the Aztecs.
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Ping, or pong?
That sucker looks at least one full flight of steps higher than when I climbed it in 1957.
In this photo, more obvious in my original photo, there are archeologists doing their archeology thing at level of the first tier on the right.
I first climbed the pyramid of the sun in 1972 as a 16 y.o.
I remember all the vendors, and I particularly remember buying Mexican jelly opal, raw and uncut, from someone on the summit of the momument.
No vendors there last month, sadly, but it still is a breathtaking and outstanding place to visit.
Well worth the $10 roundtrip bus ride and subway fare from Mexico, D.F.
You’re right; that is funny, how he got his facts wrong. I also remembered somewhat about it, but instead of laughing, looked it up.
There were at least 12 bodies; at least one of them was a missing American student, kidnapped while on spring break.
Search on “Matamoros” & “human sacrifice” & “students”
The victims were killed in sacrificial 'magic' rituals to “protect” the perps’ drug operations.
1988/89 stories from AP cover it.
Still thinks it's funny?
The most recent episode about Mexican severed heads involved the thugs tossing the heads on a dance floor in Tijuana or some similar trash town. I’ve heard of the Mexican hat dance, but never the Mexican head toss, until now.
Haven't been back.
My parents took me out of school for nearly 2 months in the dry season, and we drove from Nogales down to Mazatlan, over to Guadalajara, where I celebrated my 10th birthday, on to Mexico City, Vera Cruz, and up to San Antonio, TX, via Monterey. Hit all the major (& many smaller) towns, going to the historical sites in all of them.
It was well worth all the make-up work I had to do when I got home, in order to get promoted.
Funniest part of the entire trip was that kept running across the same two American couples at motels; we'd leave to sight see in the morning, as they were setting up their bridge table; when we got back to get cleaned up for dinner, they'd be finishing their card games. That was ALL they did their whole time, was sit outside at motels, playing bridge, then drive to their next destination, and repeat.
Doh! It isn’t too smart to sacrifice your next door neighbor. You might make his kinfolk and other neighbors mad.
Yes, I think it was a UT Austin student, and it was in Reynosa across from McAllen, if memory serves me. Ugly, ugly story. It was that made-up Haitian/South American voodoo stuff - santeria, I think.
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