Mexicans Find Historical Child Sacrifice Evidence

[The Helper]

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Archeologists have discovered the remains of two dozen children apparently sacrificed by priests who slashed their throats and offered their blood to the rain god Tlaloc, researchers said on Tuesday.

The discovery at a former Toltec settlement indicates that child sacrifice predated the Aztecs, an advanced civilization conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, and was fairly commonplace.

Dating to about 950 to 1150, the bones of the children were found on the outskirts of the Toltec archaeological zone of Tula, said Luis Gamboa, an archaeologist for the National Institute of Anthropology and History. The sacrificed children ranged from age 5 to about 15.

"They had some incisions on the vertebrae that suggested they had used some sort of (stone) to cut their throats, not so much to cut off their heads, but rather, it appears, to cut the jugular and bleed them to death," Gamboa said.

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[21ToWin]

Another reason I dont like Aztecs

 

[Rinpun]

I find it rather amusing that every single culture in the entire world, of humans, finds it necessary to make sacrifices. The Polytheists say that things, animals or humans, must be constantly sacrificed to appease the Gods, the Jews say that animals must be constantly sacrificed to appease their God, and the "Pagans" say something similar to the Polytheists, and other than that, must have a scapegoat on which to blame if things go wrong. They might not suggest killing the scapegoat, but he will, of course, be made a stock of relieving tension. Alternatively, they also make themselves scapegoats and claim that they're the ones completely responsible for their failure. Only Christianity seems to say that the sacrificing is already done for us, which I find very peculiar.