Ancient civilizations across the realm perfected the art of murder and butchery to industrial scales. At the center of what is now Mexico City was once home of Tenochtitlan. We’re taught the Aztecs “believed” that the sun god required constant bloodshed to keep him moving across the sky. Excavations have uncovered mass Graves and it is underestimated that twenty to thirty thousand humans were sacrificed annually. Four priests would hold the sacrifice down and a fifth would cut open their chest and rip the heart out and then toss the bodies down the steps of the pyramid.
Cannibalism also took place among the nobility and the priesthood who ate the limbs of these sacrificial victims not out of hunger but as acts of the sacrament. According to the Spanish Chronicles of the priests accompanying conquistadors recorded 40,000 deaths in four days at the site during the year 1487 AD. Some of their gods required warriors, others demanded children. And children as young as four years old were lined up and marched up to the temple and it was believed that the tears of those children that fell to the ground on their way to their deaths ensured good rains and healthy crops.
In 1968 a giant stone disc dedicated to the Aztec moon goddess was discovered and they began finding walls and steps mortared together with skulls in the hundreds. Tzompantli skull racks stood as shrines around the ancient city and archaeologists found that the soil in Mexico City was completely saturated with blood for nearly 200 years during the height of the empire. We’re indoctrinated with romanticized ideals of the ancient indigenous peoples of the New World and we’re conditioned to be sympathetic with the plight and exploitation of these peoples which continue into the modern age, but the industrialization of ritual murder on such a massive scale, blood rituals that weren’t confined to South America but which were as far, as widespread as to have been inherent in the Anasazi in Pueblo Colorado and the surrounding regions… it’s difficult for me to mourn the end of such cultures and civilizations.
This May Come across as harsh and insensitive but, when a civilization is butchering hundreds of thousands of its own people annually, its hard to sympathize with their civilization’s end regardless of how it came to be. From my perspective, the death that came from the shiploads of European conquerors during the colonization of the New World is only considered so vile because the ancient peoples of the New World “believed” they were their gods returning… so uh…. what’s the problem? They were butchering hundreds of thousands annually in blood sacrifices and blood rights to their gods that demanded blood, and yet they were surprised when their supposed bearded gods returned and continued the bloodshed on an equally industrious scale. My question is, why so surprised? No, the conquistadors weren’t gods but their brutality in comparison almost seems meek. Common germs did most of the damagae and from a certain point of view, their conquest might almost be viewed as merciful by comparison… the pox didn’t cannibalize the bodies, it didn’t parade its victims on endless cross-country marches of celebration to meet their ends at the fevered and ecstasy-fueled delight and butchery from their own civilization’s royal classes.
I find such violence as well as the nature of imperial colonization abhorrent. I oppose the suffering and exploitation of anyone regardless of race, culture or ideology… but I recognize the hypocrarcy of advanced civilizations that could map and charts the movements of the stars and of the heavens, that could predict lunar and solar eclipses thousands of years in advance… I do not believe for one moment that the Aztec elite classes really thought the sun would fall from the sky without the daily butchery of thousands. That is absolute horseshit… they weren’t committing their atrocities because they believed it was paramount to maintaining the functionality of the universe, they were doing so because they served fallen angels that hate and envy mankind. Perhaps they had convinced the plebes of such absurdity but the rulers should as shit knew better.
