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Originally Posted by Rinion
gross tripaning. I was under a different impression but that sounds right =o
As for Human Sacrifices are we sure those weren't added by Aztec conquerors? sounds late Mayan period at the very least.
Didn't they also find evidence of baptismal founts? I mean, I've heard stories about how Spanish missionaries relayed christian stories and surprisingly some of the natives already knew them... anyone else heard anything like that?
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Im not sure about that, I would speculate that since the mayan culture was older, that the aztec probably picked it up from them, however the aztec took the ball and ran with it surpassing the mayans in both brutality and body count. Ive heard it discribed that the aztec used the horrific human sacrifices as a weapon of political terror to keep the various subjected tribes under their rule in line.
One of the biggest problems with dealing with pre-columbian native history is there is so little hard information available, while the spanish missionaries observations are helpful, they defiantly had their own agenda in the perception of events.
we have only recently been able to decode a portion of the actual codexs found,
Maya codices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
so where there is a blank people project what it is they wish to see, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's theory of the noble savage
Noble savage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
was very popular with white historians for filling the the blanks on native american culture in the late. this was a well meaning but erronious mistake.
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