“Up to now, many archaeologists propose that
the victims were picked from the local Chichén Itzá population, but others
maintain that it wasn’t good economics to do away with too many of your own
young people, so the Mayas, according to the
new study, perhaps found their human sacrificial offerings after wars, using
captured warriors to appease their gods.”
Limbs were removed, as was all skin,
decapitation was a normal part of sacrifice. Heads were displayed on poles hung
horizontally.
The noble savage did not exist,
but was an invention of 19th century writers and do-gooders of the American
East.
Link at woodpilereport.com
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