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

[Jaime Andres Pretell]

I think the best measure of the validity of the sacrifices would be the 
willingness of the people being sacrificed to die.  If they had a mentality 
similar to that of suicide bombers where they were going to a better place, 
or that it was an honor to die, then yes, the level of happiness would 
invalidate any claim of brutality, as there was a sense of willingness in 
the person about to die. But if the victims were unwilling sacrifices, then 
no rationalization based on exposure, or candidness of the brutality would 
make it valid.  The Inquisition wasn't hidden either. Does not change the 
level of the brutality.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcelo Donadello" <marcemusic at yahoo.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Only 50/year sacrificed at Tenochtitlan?--


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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