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Hmmm! From the link: “Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten, Martinez said.”
Now, I can understand why such “marks” might suggest the alleged “cannibalism”, but I am not sure what evidence has led to this conclusion:
“The prisoners were kept in cages for months while Aztec priests from what is now Mexico City selected a few each day at dawn, held them down on a sacrificial slab, cut out their hearts and offered them up to various Aztec gods.”
Could this have been inferred from Aztec texts or art, expressing the common place of such practices as rituals…or could it be something that is supposedly still practiced by self-proclaimed “descendants”, presumably as a way of keeping with “tradition”?
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This is actually from spaniards observation. They witnessed this when they entered the capital as guests before turning on their hosts and taking Montezuma prisoner.
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^^Yes but where's the alleged "cannibalism"??
The Aztecs were known to make blood sacrifices to their gods. Commoners, usually foreigners who were enemies or subjegated nations were taken and their vital organs esepecially their hearts were offered. The Aztec king and queen would make small sacrifices of their own of blood taken from various parts of their bodies from their lips to their genitalia!
The Aztecs, like many Native Americans of Meso-America have it in their mythology that the gods used all of their blood to create the world and especially people. They believed that if humans were not to repay the gods with blood, the gods would destroy the world! LOLPosts: 26249 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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