[Aztlan] Only 50/year sacrificed at Tenochtitlan?--

[Marcelo Donadello]

A point of view

Again... Whenever somebody speaks about human sacrifices I perceive the widespread erroneous impression, in some people, which it is a measure of how much bad or wrong could be a civilization. A civilization is bad-wrong first if his people are unhappy, or if they lives cheated, and secondly, in the measure that is harmful for other forms of humanity. 

German holocaust was concealed from the people, the Mexican sacrifices were exhibited. There can not be applied criteria of generic proximity and specific difference if is not known the sense of the treated matter. 

Human sacrifices in certain civilizations, from which derive all actual civilized world, were a part, a form, of stablished order. They cannot get confused with criminal attitudes, since it is a government that practises slaughters of supposed rivals or enemies and conceals or minimezes them.  
Human sacrifices are in the history of the humanity as an exhibition: 1 of the mortality of the man, and 2: of the power of the gods or of the order suprapersonal, superhuman, and consequently of the human civil servants of this order. Perhaps today we have other means of finding out about it, but we remember this stage by these new forms of order, by Jesus' sacrifice in the Christian myth, by the existence of the mere word sacrifice, etc.

It is necessary to think or investigate very little to realize that the cannibalism is more related to the origin of cattle practices that the - much more late - domestication of the pork, the dog, the goat or the ox, which they compete ... for the second place.  
The same prejudices that prevent that a today man thinks freely about the cannibalism find his root in the human sacrifices, that is to say: these are a form of control of the violence man-to-man, form from that derive the current ones (laws, customs, tabúes). Civilization: construction of the city. Usually around the city, and interacting with her, there was an immense wild and free world, which is every time minor, at least to scale of the planet. 


Really, Forgive my english.

Marcelo Donadello, musico.


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