[Aztlan] Discovery Channel - Blood For the Gods

[Justin Kerr]

>From an Eye-witness---
I remember that in the plaza where some of their oratories stood, there
where piles of human skulls so regularly arranged that one could count them,
and I estimated them at more than a hundred thousand. I repeat again that
there were more than a hundred thousand of them. And in another part of the
plaza there were so many piles of dead men's thigh bones that one could not
count them. (and on and on)
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico page 119. 

-----Original Message-----
From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
On Behalf Of Alfred Climber
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:05 PM
To: Gordon Whittaker
Cc: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Discovery Channel - Blood For the Gods

Show me the Mass graves.. Just think of 400 years of sacrifices. There is
one heck of a cemetery somewhere. Just think of the smell it must have put
off.. Why no records of thousands of buzzards on the corn fields? All that
blood on corn and squash and bean plant roots. Would that not cause the
crops to go bad? 
Just a thought.
Maybe I got something wrong. Did not the people who wrote of the Aztec's
capital city say it was clean? The cleanest city they have ever seen? They
thought they were dreaming? They must have had one heck of a cleanup
service.. Fast too.!! The logistics just don't match. 1000 people in one
day? I want to hire their cleanup staff.. Or at least know how they did it.
It is amazing they did not have a major revolt. I would not go willingly...


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gordon Whittaker<mailto:gwhitta at gwdg.de> 
  To: Blaze Tzitzimime<mailto:ocelotonatiuh at msn.com> 
  Cc: aztlan at lists.famsi.org<mailto:aztlan at lists.famsi.org> 
  Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Discovery Channel - Blood For the Gods


  Yep, sure did! The question is, how many at any one time?

  Best,
  Gordon

  "Blaze Tzitzimime" wrote:
  >
  > Jan 03, 9:00 pm EST
  > Discovery Channel
  > Blood For the Gods
  >
  > Did Aztecs really cut out the hearts of thousands of victims?

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Gordon Whittaker
  Professor
  Linguistische Anthropologie und Altamerikanistik
  Seminar fuer Romanische Philologie
  Universitaet Goettingen
  Humboldtallee 19
  37073 Goettingen
  Germany
  tel./fax (priv.): ++49-5594-89333
  tel. (office): ++49-551-394188
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


  _______________________________________________
  Aztlan mailing list
 
http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/aztlan<http://www.famsi.org/mailman/li
stinfo/aztlan>
  Click here to post a message
Aztlan at lists.famsi.org<mailto:Aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
  Click to view Calendar of Events
http://research.famsi.org/events/events.php<http://research.famsi.org/events
/events.php>


_______________________________________________
Aztlan mailing list
http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/aztlan
Click here to post a message Aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Click to view Calendar of Events http://research.famsi.org/events/events.php