Pertinax Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 So the kids think they are having a bad time eh? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1811 More Mel Gibson human sacrifice s found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Haven't they also discovered that the Mayans committed human scrifice of children as well? Although the Mayans weren't as bloodthirsty as the other civilisations in the region, and human sacrifice was usually done in small numbers. The Aztecs on the other hand could sacrifice several thousand people in one day. This was common during the flower wars of the fifteenth century. Perhaps Mel Gibson's film should have been about the Aztecs rather than the Mayans. THe Mayans weren't half as destructive as the Aztecs, and Gibson has recieved lots of criticism from archaeologists and native American groups for his extremely negative portrayl of the native peoples of the Yucatan. Still, as this article does show - Human sacrifice certainly did take place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingan Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Haven't they also discovered that the Mayans committed human scrifice of children as well? Yes, they have found 119 bodies (Killed over a period of time) outside the small Maya temple in their last city. Men, women and children alike were ritually sacrificed and decapitated. Going slightly of topic here. (SPOILER WARNING) I was under the impression that Mel Gibson's movie was about a group of forest living Maya Indians (I don't even know it that did exist), taken to an Aztec city. Considering several factors, Aztec style sacrifice (The Maya had a small temple in the outskirt of their last city where they sacrificed small amounts of people, unlike the Aztecs) the pyramids were Aztec style (Maya pyramids were built by sun dried clay bricks and had a much larger base but were also much less "pointy"). What's really messing me up is the ship coming in the end, should have been at the east coast (Aztec territory). Wasn't most Indians all but extinct when they started to land a the west coast (Maya territory)? I'm don't know really much about South American history thou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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