[Aztlan] on the rightness or wrongness of human sacrifice

[Jules Siegel]

Jaime Andres Pretell wrote:

>  If the Aztec victims that died were in themselves willing
>  participants and believers in the sacrificial value of others, then I
>  would agree they were part of the belief system, the norm values of
>  the group.  And that is my question, did they? Were all sacrifices
>  from within the Aztec belief system and willing participants in it
>  when it came to others?

Maya kings commemorated on stone monuments the dates of their own 
mutilation in which they gave blood for the good of the realm. I am 
writing without consulting my references, but if I recall correctly, the 
sacrificial victims were captured in sacred warfare known as the Flowery 
(i.e. divine) Wars. They accepted this destiny as the price of being a 
warrior, and presumably felt it was only right and proper.

Did any of them attempt to escape? Succeed? Leave their own version of 
it all for history to absorb and judge?

-- 
JULES SIEGEL Apdo. 1764, 77501-Cancun, Q. Roo, Mexico
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts

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