A Brief History Of Human Sacrifice: The Aztecs

The Aztecs were a civilisation who lived in Central Mexico from 1300 to 1521. History has painted the Aztecs as a strange civilisation, one capable of great intelligence and architectural marvels, who simultaneously worshipped a bunch of strange, angry gods and routinely ritually sacrificed each other to them.
A lot of our beliefs about the Aztecs trace back to 1519 and the Spanish conquerors of the time and although we accept that human sacrifice was a part of their culture and religion, the extent of it is still debated today.
The fall of the Aztec Empire and our subsequent beliefs on human sacrifice in their culture, can be traced back to 1519 and the expedition of Hernán Cortés that culminated in the conquest of the capital Tenochtitlan and the fall of the Aztec Empire by 1521.
Upon arrival in Tenochtitlan, Cortes reported discoveries of the practice of human sacrifice, horrifying the general public and lending credence to the conquest. Its thanks to the Spanish writings of the time that people saw Aztecs as a horrifying civilisation who routinely murdered its own people. But how true is it? Lets find out more in today's video.
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[@teriday954]

Have you noticed the priests never offer to sacrifice themselves?

[@NickMeckler]

Yea? That would be stupid af

[@anonymousgh608]

Just like modern day presidents and kings don’t go to war. We didn’t see hitler or Stalin or bush in the battle field

[@Lisa-mg5lm]

Same as the elite and royals today, they never fight in wars either.

[@TheExtremelyFluffyYeti]

​@@anonymousgh608 True, cowards like them only sacrifice others.

[@Jay-ji1uk]

@@TheExtremelyFluffyYetinot really they were the priests meaning they were the link between the gods and the humans so if they sacrificed themselves who’s gonna communicate with the gods and stuff . Why r u guys acting like it’s not common sense

[@carlharmeling512]

Human sacrifice carried out in public terrified the people and kept them obedient to their overlords. Fear is a powerful weapon of control. Still works even today.

[@mrsleep0000]

It was probably a convenient way to get rid of your enemies and people you didn't like as well...

[@criostoirashtin11]

some with the Mayans

[@carlharmeling512]

@@criostoirashtin11 Same with the Mayans.

[@dreadway3]

The religious establishment as a whole stood aloof from the commoners, and the commoners feared them and were content to stay below their radar. Nevertheless, the commoners did vicariously take part in some religious celebrations, like the new calendar year celebration. They would sacrifice doves as their part of the observance. So the general practice of sacrifice was not entirely foreign to the lower strata of Aztec society. But they understandably didn't want to BE the sacrifice!

[@JoeSmith-vs5sy]

Like hell in Christianity.

[@kat8838]

Imagine the horror of the man who thought they were peaceful and gave his daughter to marry the chief. He snuck back later not invited to a wedding, and seen his daughter skinned and alive as their priest put her skin on and was throwing a huge murder torture party instead of a wedding. Seriously. Can't believe no one mentions that.

[@tomcruise2406]

Where did you read or see that?

[@nonyabiz8855]

source? you sound like you are making things up now..lol

[@williamproctor8743]

@@nonyabiz8855 I don’t remember the source buts he’s right. I learned it in an ap course

[@nonyabiz8855]

@@williamproctor8743 thats not how things work...making extra ordinary claims requires a source....otherwise anyone can just make things up........

[@donniecustoms9541]

@@nonyabiz8855 look up king of culhuancan daughter . the mexica sacrificed her cause they believed it would’ve turned her into a deity. do ur research before typin you goofy . these ppl back then were nothin but bad n evil glad they got conquered by spanish to end all that fuck shit

[@ericvulgate]

This channel never fails to remind me how horrifying human beings are

[@hotspur666]

LIES! LIES! LIES!...Early Europeans, the Celts were cannibals eating each others, also Africans, Americans of south or north were also cannibals, but the worst of those cannibals were the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan, Mexico. They butcher half of a million people EVERY YEARS! Their trunquated piramids were used to butchered half a million victims and their members were slipped own their bloody steep steps to the bottom to be caught by the people to take them home to cook them with salt, tomato, onion and chili inside their homes! NOTICE HOW TODAY THE MEXICANS ARE HIDING THEIR ATROCITIES!...They even try to blame the cannibalism on the Spaniards!🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@lewcehjitl3282]

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭6:5‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭8:21‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭64:6‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[@mrtaylorthevideocreator6840]

Mostly ones that have looked the same throughout history

[@nekaneka-lo2js]

@@mrtaylorthevideocreator6840 wat do you mean?

[@vivienneduong6541]

All in the name of RELIGION. Nowadays people still kill each other over religious beliefs. We belittle each other for not sharing the same God. I find lots of people hiding behind their gods that are mostly sinners.

[@rajasimanta]

Prime example of what human can normalise something horrible just because of the cultural influence

[@shirosatsuma4946]

I mean its like what we have rn with LGTV+ and cancel culture

[@urgadurga]

@@shirosatsuma4946 LGTV+ is a hilarious acronym

[@Celtjak7]

​@@shirosatsuma4946Absolutely shameless, comparing LGBT to Aztec human sacrifices

[@shirosatsuma4946]

@@Celtjak7 honestly if you ask me i'd rather be sacrificed than be part of that mentally ill community

[@mikemorales4855]

The ultimate example of nature worship that was doomed to failure. No wonder so many of the Aztecs neighbors joined Cortes in fighting the Aztecs.

[@Terramorfios]

I beg you, find and read the letters of the inquisitors and the white conquistadors, how they boasted to each other in their genocide against the Indians. And what they did in their Reducir - the Indians were forbidden to eat food outside these settlements, but only inside and only what the inquisitors gave out. Should I tell you what the Inquisitors added to the food, or will you guess for yourself? The very name Reducir translates as - reduce, reduce, reduce. Do you still believe that European necromancers brought peace and prosperity to the peoples of America?

[@mikemorales4855]

@@Terramorfios It has been some time since reading the various accounts but I will take another look. There were many atrocities but to condemn all would be foolish. The worst problem is to spend so much time and effort blaming today’s problems on Europeans living 500 years ago.

[@Terramorfios]

@@mikemorales4855 First, they act as conquerors and exterminate the population who somehow had a different worldview and resisted outsiders. Those who survived were herded into reservations, forced to speak and think in their language, instilled an alien religion and.Buddy, if people are made to think that they are pigs, then they will become pigs. This is one of the Inquisitorial rules of coercion. By putting people on drugs, you can force them to do anything.

[@asdg199]

@@Terramorfios Aztec != Amerindian people You can dislike one without disliking the other

[@anthonyjohn9000]

So what about jesus christ crucified and died as a human sacrifice for the sins of the people, in reality animal or human sacrifice is a barbarian act . Just as human sacrifice or animal sacrifice don't work so does the sacrifice of Jesus does not work, it is totally myth, fiction ,invention. The ancient people were superstitious, uneducated, no knowledge and no wisdom, and believed in such nonsense, even today superstitious people believe in animal sacrifice and human sacrifice, you can see it in the religion called Christianity.

[@Lockbar]

So getting picked to be sacrificed would be kind of like receiving an army draft notice from The Aztecs..."Greetings citizen, the chief sacrificial priests requests your presents at the Temple of Doom""

[@amoriprint]

😂😂😂

[@canofsouls282]

Sort of, but unlike a draft they actually celebrated it since it was honorable 😂

[@paradiseb5950]

“Presence” not presents lol

[@spaceted3977]

No !!! The Warriers went through vigorous training and they vowed to die on the Stone Slab !!!! They would fight ritual battles and the losers would be sacrificed !!! They captured their victims without killing them !!!! But the ordinary people were not Sacrificed !!! Being a Warrior was like modern day joining the SAS, or Navy Seals. It was an Honour for them to Die.

[@diego1590]

"mmmm, I wonder what he wants...."

[@kmk2451]

Very informative. It’s the most detailed of anything I’ve read about the rituals of the Aztecs. I’ve read ‘The Golden Conquistadors’, and the descriptions quoted by witnesses at the time describe the enormous numbers sacrificed in just one ceremony. Astonishing to the modern mind to conceive of such atrocities, and, yet, we still ‘sacrifice’ human lives for one reason or another today.

[@Sergio8897V]

If we really want to look at how nations treat people today and how it was in the old world, we sacrifice people far more often today.

[@scottloar]

"20000 per year, dying to appease the gods." Now help me out here you two, and recount to me how "we" sacrifice so many more now. Nations now practicing ritual sacrifice? Just stupid.

[@coleparker]

One has to be careful when citing some of the numbers in these descriptions as they were mainly written by Spanish priests after the conquest.

[@scottloar]

@@coleparker One has to be careful when recounting the excesses of Aztec public sacrifices and not assume the numbers are exaggerated by later Spanish priests. The first person account by Bernal Diaz in la Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de Nueva Espana recounts that Aztec cities could be smelt from afar like charnel houses. The Aztec cosmology of blood needed human sacrifice which was met by incessant warring to secure prisoners, and there are enough Aztec records to verify the practice and numbers. The very image of a bleeding Christ nailed upon a cross found particular appeal in Mesoamerica while, for example, that same image was interpreted in Confucian cultures as that of a repellent common criminal.

[@coleparker]

@@scottloar I totally agree with your comment on many points ie, Bernal Diaz's comments which I also read, the feather wars conducted by the Aztec and Surrounding Cities which provided sacrificial victims, and even the ball games which contributed as well. My conservatism in that respects I guess is based on my training as an Archaeologists. As such, I still stand my comment about being careful with some of the numbers which have been estimated as high as 80,000 in a one month period in some cases. Also, as I pointed out in my comment, most of the Aztec, Mayan and other Codices of the Mesoamerican cultures were destroyed by the Spanish Priest and it was not until later that they began to write about the religious and social aspects of human sacrifices in the Mesoamerican cultures. Therefore, many of the sources still tended to be second hand. cannibalisms which the Aztecs participated in, and the cosmology of the Saints, and its appeal to the Mesoamericans, I agree with you.

[@kingcosworth2643]

It's the Cartels who are killing people like this now.

[@CD-yr8tw]

They are the modern day Aztecs.

[@stevensnake3008]

5,000 war captives were shot full of arrows on top of the war sun god temple and fell off the temple 150 feet high. A huge fire of burning logs were waiting down below. As they fell into the fire they would jump up and run out of the scalding fires. Waiting Aztec warriors would then. Beat them to death. This was the most horrific of ceremonies

[@dansacco1964]

Idk man, skin suit guy and tortured for tears kid might argue with "most horrific"

[@rtopalovich]

Guess you just had to be there.

[@stevensnake3008]

@@rtopalovich your next.

[@spaceted3977]

And the Aztecs would Chop them up and eat them with exotic preparations with Chillies, Avocadoes, Tomatoes,Onions and Potatoes !!!! The Mayans were Head Hunters who wore Shrunken Heads around their Belts !!!! They Sacrificed Children and made them scream in agony by ripping out their Fingernails !!!! It's a Good thing that their Society was Destroyed !!!! The Spaniards had many thousands of their Soldiers Sacrificed and Eaten by all the South American Indians !!!!! They were Evil, just like a lot of Religious People are Today !!!!

[@mrcool1519]

Lmfao that's freaking amazing...wish I was there and not in this trash world living with trash people where nothing means anything and everybody is inhuman

[@shmoonie2467]

Great video! Closed Caption was a hoot.

[@cesarcortes77]

Great video and break down!

[@lamon.mennsdressingmyhutch6125]

I could have lived the rest of my life without knowing this

[@fishofgold6553]

Allow me to like your comment and reply to it in order to remind you. 😃

[@Toven_WaveWatcherFi]

It's actually good to learn about awful periods in time so you can be more grateful for the time/place in live in

[@lamon.mennsdressingmyhutch6125]

@@Toven_WaveWatcherFi while I certainly appreciate you optimism I feel like we are living in one of those times right now

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people. Just use some common sense, how the fu*k is it even humanly possible to kill 20,000 people a year by cutting open their chests?

[@scott2864]

Kinda glad the Spanish conquered them

[@jdee8407]

They sacrificed 20,000 people a year! Omg I didn't know it was that bad.

[@raimundomuthemba766]

Lies.

[@HITBnn]

Not possible lmao. 20000 was probably their overall population

[@centzon916]

Mathematically impossible. Not only would they have too kill numerous people per DAY but the population of mesoamerica would fall not rise as it had been prior too the arrival of foreign disease.

[@joebroart]

@@raimundomuthemba766 wait let me guess, "these are colonialists lies told by evil white men that rewrote history." Read a history book kiddo... The majority of neighboring villages that surrounded the Aztec empire helped the Spaniards defeat the Aztecs. They where so tiered of the Aztecs coming into their villages and grabbing there kids by force for there sacrifices.

[@ge2623]

We sacrifice 40,000 a yr. to vehicle crashes alone. That's worse.

[@kalebj7001]

Aztecs believed to save mankind humans have to be Sacrificed to Gods... When the Spanish landed with their belief that God sacrificed himself to save mankind, that must have sounded sooo strange and such a relief for them 😅

[@19737009]

Indeed

[@axxiom20001]

This video said that Aztecs believed their Gods sacrificed themselves so that humans could live....which is very similar to Jesus allowing himself to be sacrificed for us.

[@kalebj7001]

@@axxiom20001 no the aztecs sacrificed their own folks to please their God... what's the point of ritualistic sacrifice every season them?

[@centzon916]

Aztec myth literally starts with a God killing himself to rekindle the sun. Many of the natives also willingly converted to catholicism. The Aztecs simply put a value on human life as they believed that if they didn't sacrifice then all would die.

[@josephc.9520]

Even more relieving to know these were bloodthirsty people murdering everyone while proclaiming this "religion" No Im not dissing on Christianity, only the conquistadors

[@cierakitty]

They had ssoooo many gods, and sacrificed for sun, rain, crops, fertility, etc....all requiring...blood. Man, woman, child...did not matter. (yes they raided and took captives....but when they had none...well, you guessed it ). Imagine waking up one morning and "they" came for you...wow...you're it ! !

[@Huh-hx1lq]

Shittiest game of tag ever

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people.

[@supernatural5354]

@@therichestmaninbabylon7942 I don't speak your language but okay.

[@supernatural5354]

@@therichestmaninbabylon7942 No thank you

[@elijahhernandez906]

​@@supernatural5354So what's the true story then?

[@BizarreHistory]

Great video!

[@kingcosworth2643]

3:00 This is a scene from Apocalypto. Great movie.

[@weepingbones_2]

Only a great movie for people who don't care about historical accuracy or just want to see Maya in a movie

[@NeptuninoDrum31.]

Terrible movie

[@russpaxman3660]

The human propensity to believe first:- in Gods, and Second that doing the right things or saying the right words, influence the invented Gods, in your favour? Absolutely universal, and absolutely crazy. It’s all about having control of nature, which we have no control over.

[@evannlorman7926]

Tips fedora

[@fivestring65ify]

Yep. It's all about controlling the people.

[@marksouthern7542]

Interesting to see that humans now believe they can control nature by what forms of energy and food production they utilise. Those that now see 'mother earth' as the supreme being who see that humans are over populating the planet, could soon rationalise and accept the death of millions to preserve her (the earth). Human nature has not changed.

[@operationgladiolives]

@@fivestring65ify Yes, too many people are ignoring the aspects of systems of control and power here.

[@jimparsons6803]

Being a mainly agricultural society, I had thought that human blood sacrifice was done to promote the rains and to keep away damaging insects, like with many or most other agricultural societies down through history. I've wondered that once currency came into existence, societies might have stopped killing people because there's money; money I've heard is better than rain or Off bug spray? But perhaps I'm wrong?

[@janosik150]

They were killing because it was entertintment and bloodthirst like during Roman times in coloseum...same happened in suppose Holy place of stone henge ..people are still killing for money..if actually more

[@centzon916]

Good way too get rid of both war prisoners and the dregs of society. Probably just the brutal reality of it

[@albertoiportillocaballero3163]

Some people still are like that a days here🇲🇽

[@cerberus6654]

The blood sacrifice was, yes, done to encourage Tlaloc to release the rains in the spring. But more importantly to keep the gods alive and happy as without them, everything would collapse. Interesting side note - the Aztecs would skim off the larvae of mosquitoes on the many lagoons in the valley and turn them into dried cakes to be eaten with chile. Talk about being in harmony with your environment.

[@giantorres3352]

They did not have good protein sources so cannibalistic were necessary, sacrifices were a way to get food. Mexicans nowadays eat lots of chicken, beef, pig...... All this animals weren't present before the Spanish arrived.

[@khfan4life365]

No wonder so many tribes joined forces with Cortes.

[@1204khalil]

You think they didnt the same things? They thougth they would be the new rulers but they didnt knew the spaniards didnt see them as equals at all

[@emmanueldidier321]

@@1204khalil When did you speak with them?

[@1204khalil]

@@emmanueldidier321 ask the same question to historians

[@mace1633]

@@1204khalil not on such a large scale tho

[@WillyOrca]

​@@1204khalil YEAH, You are essentially comparing the overhead of a SINGLE mom and pop shop, to that of the Walmart Cooperation as a whole. Most of the smaller tribes that helped him, would have literally run out of people and gone extinct in less than a year of sacrificing people at the rate the Aztecs were. One or two captives being sacrificed at a time is totally different than literally establishing a supply-line of human livestock for your industrial murder machine.

[@terrywhitman9967]

These Aztecs were really nice people weren't they.

[@syariefdirgantara7670]

Yeah. How sweet they are Yikes!

[@anitat9727]

Not many people were back then.

[@jjgreg4089]

@@syariefdirgantara7670 Let's be honest no one back than was that good. Just look at history

[@1204khalil]

Better than the inquisition

[@karlscher5170]

@@1204khalil better than a certain ped ophile pro phet...

[@ramkeransusanann796]

No wonder the empire came to an end. What horror

[@Souliban]

Spain put them down. But Mexicans are Aztecs, that's the problem

[@canofsouls282]

So did the Spanish empire good heavens the shit they did is baby stuff compared to Aztecs 😂

[@bool_aid_man510]

@@Souliban bullshit

[@zynicall6910]

@@Souliban ignorant

[@Paul-kr4hw]

​@@Souliban After the fall of the Aztecs indigenous prisoners suffering from pandemics were sadistically tortured, incidents that were supported by European clergymen, and those that survived were worked to death as slaves and replaced by slaves shipped from Africa. Some apologists try to rationalise it and justify it by saying it wasn’t their intention to kill them because they needed their slave labour to enrich themselves. Well if they were such humanitarians simply not enslaving and working them to death would probably have prevented them from dying. But stealing the wealth of Latin America and becoming wealthy took precedence over the lives of people that were suffering from introduced diseases. Had the indigenous allies known what lay ahead in the future they may have made different decisions.

[@mugpush4816]

The best ladies were kept for Montezuma... he fathered well over 100 children!

[@SamPan20]

I understand that they didn't have science to explain stuff, so they believed in gods, but why did their beliefs become so barbaric? How did they get into their heads they needed human sacrifice? Why couldn't they believe, for example, you could cook a feast (not containing humans) and offer it to the gods? I reckon some really messed up people in charge used this to control others and blamed it on the gods to justify it.

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people.

[@poofartin8788]

​@@supernatural5354 any source for this? cuz it sounds like your talking out of your ass

[@marksouthern7542]

@@supernatural5354 And your version is just a romanticism that avoids the truth and I suspect would blame western Christianity as the great evil that over threw the world. The same thing has happened in Australia. History is being retold, indigenous life is romanticised, the horrors of some of the indigenous practices, including the extremely bad treatment of women, are purposefully ignored or written out of history, and Christianity and colonialism is viewed as the great evil.

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@supernatural5354fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@REBECCA12341]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@ikramjelani8375]

God, who is merciful and compassionate, has been in the throes of the cruel oppressors since time immemorial.

[@notnero5280]

god doesn't exist, but even if he did, he definitely isn't merciful and compassionate otherwise he would've stopped these people from getting murdered.

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out

[@HOENUMAN]

​@@supernatural5354😂

[@Frankie123457]

YHWH likely demanded human sacrifice in Canaan. Moloch refers to a method of sacrifice where someone would be burned on an altar. When the Canaanite religion developed into monotheism, the wind/war god Yahweh's demand for the sacrifice of the first-born son became the evil Canaanite practice of child sacrifice condemned by the Judean tribal god YHWH. In fact the Judeans were Canaanites and not foreigners to this region. What's more, among the different accounts of why child sacrifice is condemned, the biblical authors cannot even agree, likely because it was a post-hoc justification for stopping an old practice.

[@ash8207]

So grateful to live in our modern times, despite all the evils & travesties we have today. Really mind numbing that the Aztecs, who were advanced in certain aspects, could also simultaneously be so savagely superstitious & ignorant to commit such horrible atrocities. SMH!

[@thedawg1632]

you’re no different if you’re living in the western world

[@TheExtremelyFluffyYeti]

​@@thedawg1632 What do YOU know about that? You don't know him/her, so you have no idea what s/he's like. Your comment is just completely ignorant. 🙄😒

[@annalyncruz7694]

These people were sons of the devil..glad that thesw civilization vanished

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@thedawg1632fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@REBECCA12341]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@annanardo2358]

Crazy culture, they were nuts.

[@fragolegirl2002]

In Inca culture offerings are an important part of our world, we believed that the greatest offering of all was offering ourselves to spare another since obviously we must kill in order to survive and we believed gods saw it as an admirable noble cause and seen with great respect to offer your vessel instead as sacrifice rather than eat something that must die for you. We didn’t believe one had more value than the other like western culture that considers animals not to have a soul practically almost wiping out the buffalo. We believed if we took more than what we needed that it angered the gods and for forgiveness we offered our own species which represented mortality meaning we are powerless and aware we can’t have it all forever. But yet we try despite we are mortal due to lust for power and greed. And if one wants an empire you will murder a lot to achieve it, the more you take from the gods the more you will kill. Power in itself comes with a price with plenty of humans sacrificed to achieve that power due to war. the only difference we tried to reason with the Gods.

[@keepitsecret-dl1pr]

learn to type in paragraphs if you want to be taken seriously@@fragolegirl2002

[@goldsteinman]

racist

[@edgardopineda3317]

Bear this in mind, we are talking about the forces of darkness that took control of the aztec empire, first they got rid of the the good leader, Quetzalcoalt and built el templo mayor, the big piramyd, and placed the estatue of huitzilopotli, whole statue was placed at the top of the templo mayor, the big pyramid, the statue was said to were a belt with the skull and bones symbol, this are the same symbol of the skull and bones, so this are bloodthorsty demons, so hopefully you can figure out the rest.

[@kwanchan6745]

this is what happens when you appoint deranged serial killers into positions of power

[@alexmendez3681]

When was the Templo Mayor built?

[@tanler7953]

One could say the same of a number of more recent societies, like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia or the Nazis, who believed they were saving the world by removing "inferior races". "Forces of darkness" is just ideology that people come to believe is right without question. That says a lot about human behavior, that it's more important to believe in something, regardless of the consequences.

[@julio-iz3sk]

I think you guys still are killing each others

[@nekaneka-lo2js]

@@tanler7953 big facts.

[@pinoyakoh6024]

And this is why the were wiped off the face of the earth. No civilization that did human sacrifice lasted, no matter how powerful they were

[@lynnchang5080]

Actually all ancient civilizations did practise human sacrifice in one way or another. We are all descendants of those civilisations........

[@scripta4812]

Purely demonic.

[@maryamsakinah7939]

Bless Spain for ending this madness

[@Paul-kr4hw]

After the fall of the Aztecs indigenous prisoners suffering from pandemics were sadistically tortured, incidents that were supported by European clergymen, and those that survived were worked to death as slaves and replaced by slaves shipped from Africa. Some apologists try to rationalise it and justify it by saying it wasn’t their intention to kill them because they needed their slave labour to enrich themselves. Well if they were such humanitarians simply not enslaving and working them to death would probably have prevented them from dying. But stealing the wealth of Latin America and becoming wealthy took precedence over the lives of people that were suffering from introduced diseases. Had the indigenous allies known what lay ahead in the future they may have made different decisions.

[@bidensdiaper394]

Maybe not mass murder in the first place? Maybe not wear the skin of freshly flayed women, Buffalo Bill? Maybe not torture for tears, tens of thousands of CHILDREN? Noble savage myth at it's finest. Good riddance

[@user-wo2bt4gs6k]

Spaniards were sent home with their tails between their legs, back to the hole in spain they crawled out of.

[@brittanyt9029]

Always was curious about this..

[@mickharrison9004]

Jeez if you were around here back then , suffering a very bad death could well be possible ,check out the film apocalyptio very violent and nearly shows what it was like back then .

[@hexartz378]

So in a way it was great that conquistador’s came and stopped that

[@mickharrison9004]

@@hexartz378 oh rite did they i didn't know .

[@fivestring65ify]

@HexArtz The Spaniards committed genocide against the indeginiuos people in the name of their God. Religion is evil, no matter which God, or Gods you claim to serve.

[@canofsouls282]

That movie is extremely historically innacurate

[@mickharrison9004]

@@canofsouls282 oh rite can you name 3 ways it not accurate.

[@fullmetalmex0172]

Very detailed, would like to know more about the gods described and the other gods that were worshipped

[@spaceted3977]

There are many Gods mentioned on Kindle, Quazocoatl the Feathered Serpent. Mictlanticutli The God of Death, it`s incredible that anyone would believe such stuff !!!! They were Head Hunters and Cannibals !!!!

[@cierakitty]

Look it up on here...Aztec Gods they worshiped

[@miladinblagojevic2263]

A zar se i danas ljidi ne ubijaju u ime religija svi bogvi zahtevaju mnogo krvi.

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@miladinblagojevic2263fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@REBECCA12341]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@terrychambers6726]

I noticed how none of the family of those doing the sacrifice on the alter were ever put through the ritual themselves. Do you think they knew something the rest did not.

[@spaceted3977]

It was enemy Warriors that were Sacrificed, then they were chopped up and Eaten !!!! The Priests and Rulers were only Sacrificed if they lost a battle to the other tribes !!!!!

[@markmello1366]

@@spaceted3977 you need more exclamation marks

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@markmello1366fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@spaceted3977fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@markmello1366will you not fear Allah

[@EuanWhitehead]

Incredible, so interesting

[@localfatty4364]

Jesus that fire ceremony is insane !!

[@frankplechaty3415]

love history interesting topic thank you

[@barneybrown7543]

History is not to be taken seriously anymore it's been politisized

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people.

[@curtiszyr]

The audacity to ask me if enjoyed the break down of Aztec human sacrifice 😂😂😂 I’m horrified brother

[@brandonvargas6729]

I would have liked to have seen these sacrifices. It always boggles my mind that my ancestors used to sacrifice eachother in such a brutal way.

[@marktrujillo2150]

Lots of similarities in the way cartels do the same stuff the Azteca did .the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

[@user-dh6yv9uo4k]

Cartels learned their torture and terror tactics from the CIA

[@bidensdiaper394]

Sorry, but the gangs/cartels are very proud of their "noble ancient roots". CIA my ass 😂

[@operationgladiolives]

@@bidensdiaper394 A documented historical fact, the first cartel gangs were trained right in Fort Bragg as paratrooper elites, the Zetas I believe. It is no coincidence that the first cartels arose very suddenly and armed with american weaponry.

[@greendottedtoad2.018]

@@user-dh6yv9uo4kfacts

[@goldsteinman]

@@user-dh6yv9uo4k CIA based on jews not white people

[@cyrusthegreat3081]

I like my ten percent taxing God better now!

[@cyberla]

😂😂

[@thetruth7741]

Spanish conquerors were heroes in somebody's story.

[@gaelsaavedracampos4764]

En la historia nunca hay héroes o villanos, los Mexicas eran opresores pero tampoco digamos que el imperio español era inocente

[@tacosunbirth]

@@gaelsaavedracampos4764 When your enemy is sacrificing children, I think it's safe to say that you are the good guys if you destroy them. THE One and Only God does not look kindly on human sacrifice. It was a blessing for the Mesoamericans that they were taught Catholicism by noble Spaniards, who are wrongfully demonized by the evil people of today

[@gaelsaavedracampos4764]

@@tacosunbirth aqui estas cometiendo 2 errores 1- jusgar el pasado con pensamiento actual 2- romantizando un bando y demonisando otro Y te entiendo, si creciste pensando que las religiones judeo cristianas son las "buenas" es normal que pienses eso, pero cuando referimos a la historia como ciencia se debe tener pensamiento critico Pd: mira la historia de la nueva españa y el mexico independiente para que sepas lo mal que lo pasaron los indigenas despues de la conquista

[@kenopsia6748]

@@tacosunbirth Amen.

[@tacosunbirth]

@person8188 Don't worry dude I know middle school is really hard and it might seem like there is no God when you are forced to go to church with your mom, but you're gonna survive this, trust me

[@lauramartin1902]

Aztecs pushed the sacrificed bodies down the hill / steps for a specific reason relating to their culture’s early myths and legends! (Details are escaping me at the moment). It’s not unceremonious… quite the opposite!

[@Slick1G3]

the Aztec Indians sacrificed believing their acclaimed star people would return /see the movie apocalipto

[@Fontadlens8067]

They threw the body down the steps as a reference to Huitzilopochtli's drfeat of his sis Coyolxauqui whom he defeteated, decapitated and threw down Mount Coatepetl where he was born.

[@richardwoodell5772]

It must have been a logistical sanitation nightmare!

[@uno4606]

La Malinche

[@richardwoodell5772]

In this painting, the handsome youth appears to be not only willing, but even eager, to face his impending death!

[@blueberrytacos]

What a great Friday night viewing

[@cowboybebop8273]

I enjoyed this history..

[@coleparker]

Interesting in that so many people make comments on the horrific nature of MesoAmerican human sacrifice, but hardly say a word about Roman Gladiatorial games or the sacrifices of the much older Mesopotamian civilizations.

[@themercy8492]

Mesopotamian, egyptian,indian as well were virgin girls were sacrificed even in the time of British india in some remote cultures of india

[@coleparker]

@@themercy8492 The sacrifice of Virgin Girls is the general consensus. However, that maybe questionable. It was thought that the Mayans sacrifice Virgin Girls by throwing them into the Cenotes in the region. It was found later by the recovering of human remains from them, that most of the sacrifices were actually young males. In addition, I forgot to mention the human sacrifices that were done in the Neolithic up through to the Viking age in Northern Europe where the people were disemboweled, strangled, and hung from trees.

[@themercy8492]

@@coleparker yes it is in the vikking world...but the Indian rituals are of the recent past century

[@donald8066]

But that was not by many ten or even hundred thousends in short period and millions over the hole time.

[@themercy8492]

@@donald8066 yes that was why the nature had got it's revenge ...and when any civilization acts against the natural law of justice it's is whipped off from the face of earth...by any natural disaster or a power full enemy or opponent....like the Spaniards vanished those civilizations

[@DavidGonzalez-nw4ww]

Spain had a positive influence in that part of the world

[@oscarrr4254]

sure did now way less people suffers

[@marksouthern7542]

You really mean, 'Christianity', as a world view, not necessarily a faith. It is now forgotten that where ever the colonialists 'invaded' they also brought with them a far superior world view that stopped many evils against humans that were being done in the name of the 'gods'. Especially the form of Protestant Christianity that emerged out of England which were the first to abolish slavery completely. Ironically, colonialism and Christianity is now being recast as a tyrant and is in the process of being eradicated and former philosophies and superstitions resurrected.

[@thereisnopandemic]

As a Latino man myself I agree, Viva la Madre Patria de España

[@thereisnopandemic]

🇪🇸

[@JamesKP17847]

Yes but no, as with all things there was great pros and severe cons to the Spanish conquest

[@hex4047]

I always wonder, who made up these practices. Initially, someone or a group decided 1. there are different gods 2. what these gods do or are responsible for 3. what these gods want 4. what will it take to satisfy them. The initial founders had to make all this stuff up or did they just get high or hammered and that's where it came from?

[@Ese361]

The Azteca Mexica where well known for doing alot of drugs and would make a liquor that was stronger than tequila lol Not only that but they also tattooed all of their bodies and faces looking like MS 13 gang members with long hair jajajaja Thank God that the Spanish conquistadors conquered them and took all of the gold and Native women they wanted and created the Mexicans you see today

[@dreadway3]

The sacrificial-based religion probably predated human habitation in the Valley of Mexico. It may have originated among the Aztec's remote ancestors before they crossed the Bering Strait from Eurasia. Seems like I read something about an oral tradition about the first Mexica nomads to enter the Valley. They had a mummified hawk that they revered as an avatar of the war god. In life, the hawk had probably been kept by shamans who fed it doves or other small animals. The gods, their functions and their respective priesthoods probably grew up gradually, changing in response to their interactions with other groups and different places. The sedentary life that the lake in the Valley of Mexico provided allowed the priesthoods to burgeon and acquire a growing amount of resources and political power. Powerful enough that a separation of church and state was unthinkable. Every emperor had to take the agenda and maneuverings of the various priesthoods into account before he acted.

[@finesseking1023]

They communicated with demons

[@goldsteinman]

satan try to communicate with humans who have ability to influence masses, dont try to laugh at me while ur brain even cant explain how this sacrifice thing is started

[@carlwhitehair4282]

This is the thing I hate as a Navajo. The Anazazi, I was told we’re cannibalistic, hold slaves. The Utes & related tribes speak the same language as the Mexican tribes. Now that grafting Peyote religion ( a cactus that does not grow in the states) to being called Native Americans Church is showing Navajo are slowing losing their ways. My grandparents had stories why we avoid the Utes & certain tribes from the south.

[@maxe6478]

I’m a regular white boy from Arizona and I know there were peaceful, nomadic tribes and others that were violent. I hear you my friend

[@dreadway3]

Are many Navajo members of the Native American Church, @carlwhitehair?

[@ThatBasedGuy]

This video should be shown to all those who claim that “all cultures are equal”.

[@davidweining8981]

Sounds like early satanism to me😐

[@italiansoldierfromww2460]

I don't think the Aztecs had any concept of Satan until the Spanish came

[@matthewneddeau7993]

Satan is a manifestation of Abrahamic Religions

[@hungryteddy1657]

@@italiansoldierfromww2460 bruh you don’t need to know satan to be in satan worship. Truth is all pagan religions is satanism whether you know it or not

[@LaB567]

Their gods were indeed demons masquerading as gods.

[@giantorres3352]

There is a theory that they were cannibalistic because they did not have chickens,sheeps, goats or cattle.

[@sharonmontano4924]

No fish, pheasants, grouse, etc

[@Enzo012]

As far as they were concerned they performed the sacrifices and the world didn't end so it must have worked.

[@HeardFromMeFirst]

Can't help the times we are born into ...

[@svenno9951]

What a shame they were utterly destroyed, not.

[@canofsouls282]

Their still there bro their not gone 😂

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people.

[@robfulano2552]

They are in drugtraffic now.

[@svenno9951]

@@supernatural5354 you actually believe despite all the evidence that they didn't human sacrifice? Come on

[@supernatural5354]

@svenno9951 You actually believe everything you're told by colonizers? There is no evidence that they "sacrifice" people, it's just a term that is used to make them look like savages. When we kill people the US on death row are they sacrificed?

[@ashleypatel5461]

Honest reaction: Good God Almighty! 😢

[@AutodidactEngineer]

There is no god karen

[@tyrannosaurus2973]

Good thing ku doesn’t happen in todays world right! Lookup funky town gore

[@wayne8084]

I do believe and was taught in schools it was Hernando,and that believed that eating the hart gave you the strength of the person

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Do you have references?

[@barneybrown7543]

Those were evil people murdering young girls and throwing their bodies in the town well (don't drink the water),Can you imagine how evil those people were to give their children over to that monster to be ripped up

[@keepitsecret-dl1pr]

it's hard to understand but they didn't think it was evil because that's all they knew and all assumed how human society worked - but it's obviously disgusting and I'm very glad they were culled

[@chikannnn]

@@keepitsecret-dl1pr as if the people who "culled" them did any better

[@wab4425]

Actually I am horrified!😱

[@ruxanajewoon1120]

Watch apocalypto film

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people

[@williamwhite3774]

They had a game that was played between two teams and the winning side had the honour of having their heads chopped off. Records show all ties.

[@jaimeamaya2679]

Amazing that the Spaniards were horrified at the Aztecs human sacrifice while they came to the americas freshly schooled by the spainish inquisition and all it's horrific brutality.

[@rdrrr]

The Spanish Inquisition wasn't as brutal as a lot of people think it was. Among its findings was that witches didn't exist and anyone claiming to be a "witch-hunter" was a fraud who should be imprisoned. One of the goals of the Inquisition was to stop a lot of messy superstitions that had gotten out of hand.

[@scramble7673]

20,000 sacrifices each year =54.7 a day🤔

[@NyoSupers]

My thoughts as well...thank you.

[@bidensdiaper394]

Myth of the noble savage busted!!! Glad they were wiped off the face of the earth. Disgusting

[@keepitsecret-dl1pr]

oh no, they'd do mass sacrifices and think how big Mesoamerica was... thousands and thousands of people in many many villages

[@Horus845]

Human sacrifice is at its peak , it never stopped

[@nachi019]

I think these Aztecs are reincarnated to be members of any Mexican Cartels. Vert disturbing, i mean those skinning & heart ripping is a normal thing.

[@carlosabrego7987]

And what do you think about the Israelitas,,russians ,,americans ?

[@MF_DOOMer]

I'm not mad at the Conquistadors one bit. It also makes sense why the Cartel is so brutal. It runs in their Ancestry.

[@ariarobins546]

I said this years ago as well.

[@thenotoriousgryyn342]

Glorious!!

[@peterpadazopoulos2954]

We still perform sacrifices today its called WAR

[@chalinofalcone871]

Six uniformed people around a table, no gods, determine which cities will vanish within the hour. [The Human Province, Elias Canetti, 1973, English Edition, 1978, Sec. "1943“] Of all human religion, war is the most tenacious; but it too can be disbanded. [The Human Province, Elias Canetti, 1973, English Edition, 1978, Sec. "1942“]

[@mhaas281]

Would be interesting to see if and how they would have evolved if completely isolated from us Anglos until now. What world would they have created for themselves.

[@jaydwy8069]

Planned parenthood?

[@hexartz378]

Your heart would have already been sacrificed then

[@floridaman318]

Isolated from you anglos? You mean Spaniards.

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people.

[@fakefaker3098]

Check archaeological records of human sacrificial remains. Cope and seethe while you’re at it

[@WillGaylord]

Having a hard time reminding myself that all cultures are equally beautiful

[@zzp1]

Regarding tortures the Spanish could easily match the Aztecs. Remember Torquemada. The Spenish were definately the most cruel people of Western Europe. They slaughtered not only the Aztecs but also many other tribes of South America just as the invading Germans did with the natives in the northeren part of what is now called USA. Stolen land, stolen property, just what the Spanish did in the southern part of the continent. The Roman church played a big role in the massacre of the many tribes of South America.

[@karlscher5170]

Ki lling for land and gold. Not kil-ling and tort uring for pure blo odlust, like the old or modern Mexicans

[@latheredup533]

Thank God that the Spanish rid my ancestors of their hideous human sacrifice practices. I cannot be deceived by your your weak, propaganda.

[@italiansoldierfromww2460]

excuse me, but what did the Germans do here in the US? I'd say it was more so the French one British

[@voit8567]

French

[@mktzi7678]

@@italiansoldierfromww2460 he probably meant germanics. British are germanic.

[@isobelle.London]

I’m speechless I don’t judge them bc there ppl of there time and ideology but 😮

[@martinusv7433]

"Of their time", right? Moses allegedly received the command "you shall not kill" ca. 2,500 years BEFORE that, not to mention the message of compassion of Jesus in 1 AD (and of Buddha already 500 BC). People will go to great lenghts to excuse all kinds of depravity. Smh.

[@brianchecketts9792]

After hearing all these, you almost have to wonder how many people actually felt forced to become Christians and how many switched willingly...

[@alexandria2243]

I wonder what they thought when the were told about the Abrahamic God, particularly with Christianity. They sacrificed people to their gods, I wonder how weird for them it was to be told about a belief system where it was God in the person of Jesus that was essentially the one (willingly) sacrificed (within Christian theology) and that essentially Christians believe only one 'sacrifice' was ever actually needed and it was done for the sake of the people not the god. It's like a reverse. I just thought that was interesting not trying to argue a point or anything.

[@brianchecketts9792]

@@alexandria2243 that is an interesting point of view to ponder... thanks for sharing the thought, I really do appreciate the mental puzzles when wondering what people actually thought. There is so much written, but no real guarantee that was the pulse of the people or social spirit of the times. You gave me an interesting question to ponder and I am grateful for that. 🤙

[@garyslomczynski6579]

The Christian cults destroyed the native American culture and this is a sin that needs to be fixed!! These cults are the most dangerous and violent!! Look at the world history!!

[@rdrrr]

@@alexandria2243 I heard the Aztecs believed consuming the blood of a sacrificed enemy would give you their powers. Drinking the blood of a God to achieve everlasting life? Communion made immediate sense to them.

[@matthewgonzalez9034]

Sometimes you need Evil to Fight Evil

[@user-wo2bt4gs6k]

It looks like evil is fighting evil in our time. How ironic!

[@fernandogald3784]

Because death takes you to another dimension.

[@grahamblack1961]

Go there and let us know what it's like.

[@ocevicheband502]

Cultural misery. Cult misery. Culture!

[@ocevicheband502]

I hate them.

[@may_beeharuno2195]

This is exactly like Apocalypto

[@Kintabl]

What a bunch of sadistic people.

[@raymand8867]

Omg! I watched the movie ‘Apocalypto’ in 2008 - this is what they did in it. In 2020, 4 members in my family did a Dna test. My mother is 1% mesoamerican. This week I looked into their history. I am stunned at what I have found. I can’t get my head around it. My ancestors were either the Aztecs or Mayan’s or some other people… I’m not sure, as I have nothing to go by other than the dna result. In 2015 i visited the Mayan ruins in Mexico, Tulum. I can’t help but think that my ancestors were ppl who did this stuff 😔 How can I know for sure?

[@uno4606]

La Malinche : a princess who was the most important figure in history

[@anticommunist840]

They were your ancestors 500 years ago. Lmao nobody cares you're just a 1% for it.

[@JG-tt4sz]

Live your life, not theirs.

[@AmazinGraceXOXO1]

Oh honey. It doesn’t matter what they did. It wasn’t you. You are your own person, and you seem really kind. Past is past and cannot be changed, but you can absolute do better so that the people that will come after you, will look at their ancestry and be proud.

[@spaceted3977]

Read the Historical Accounts of Conquistadores like Bernal Diaz, and factual Accounts of their Civilization !!!! They did not Sacrifice people for fun !!!! They were Cannibals and ate all their Victims !!! Not because they were Evil, but because they had no meat in their Diet !!! All the South American Indians were Cannibals. The Aztecs, The Incas, the Mayans, the Toltecs all ate their victims !!! The Mayans made their Child Sacrifices Scream in agony by ripping out their Fingernails !!!! But none of it is your Fault, the Spanish Conquistadores ate their Dead Soldiers, because they would have starved to death otherwise !!!

[@DonVitosLazyEye]

It's insane to think that this is incredibly tame compared to how people are killed by gangs in South America today...

[@niceplayground]

The tour guide said it was the elite who did these things, always avoid the elite ‼️

[@lewcehjitl3282]

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” ‭‭Revelation‬ ‭21:8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[@jennifermoriarty2188]

Still in hearts of people today

[@SuperMaverick4u]

Thank God for you existed me 21st century

[@littlebritain64]

Of course none of the priests or of the emperors were sacrificed. Strange thing, they should have been proud to reach their gods....

[@1204khalil]

There are actually stories from people offering themselves after obtening their freedom or warrior who didnt even tried to escape because they actually belive this

[@fivestring65ify]

Same thing happens today. Instead of blood sacrifice, the priests demand we give up our livelihood for their God. And of course, they speak for their God.

[@martinusv7433]

​@@fivestring65ify Because money is just as important as human life, right? 👍👍 Seems fairly obvious what kind of "god" you're serving (and if that "god" is lifeless and inanimate it's only more ridiculous whichever way you look at it).

[@mademoisellee310]

We are so terrified by human sacrifice that a lot of people don't now that every great civilization of the past performed them. I'm an archaeologist and I can assure every civilization I've met performed human sacrifices in the early stages of its own societal evolution. From ancient Greeks to Egyptians, to Chinese Empire every culture have signs of this kind of rite, but we are horrified only by the Mesoamerican ones, due to a colonial perspective. Please be careful judging, Mesoamerican cultures were very complex, and for us is difficult to understand the depths of their rites

[@operationgladiolives]

Too many comments denouncing the Aztecs as inherently evil, very bizarre and pseudo-racist stuff. There's even a lady panicking because she's .5% mesoamerican😭

[@ElJagdtiger]

Como dato curioso pudieron hacer enormes pirámides e infraestructuras sin usar la rueda como medio principal y con poca población, además de finalmente se aculturizados y absorbidos por los mestizos, de los cuales son los actuales mexicanos y guatemaltecos.

[@dschonsie]

the last sacrifice sounds like fun O_o

[@renjithmathewpsc]

Movie -> APPO KALIPTOO made me here to study about it😁

[@urdaddybish]

There's a movie based on the mayan human sacrifice culture called "Apocalypto" it's honestly grt, y'all can give it a try !!

[@REBECCA12341]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@REBECCA12341]

Will you not fear Allah

[@urdaddybish]

@@REBECCA12341 obv I respect him bt y u saying so ?

[@REBECCA12341]

@@urdaddybish Dr zakir Naik understand him fast at u tube we don't have time

[@REBECCA12341]

@@urdaddybish don't die as a disbelievers

[@lotfigaming848]

and btw even the Norse mythology did human sacrifice

[@raccoonman5451]

not 20,000 a year tho and no skin suits

[@fivestring65ify]

@@raccoonman5451 sacrifice is sacrifice. They even did it in the OT times.

[@canofsouls282]

@@raccoonman5451 20k is still a debated amount, we have only seen 640 sacrifices of solid proof not inflated numbers by white people 😂

[@HH-fm7bt]

Not in favour of what European colonizers did to natives, but MY GOD these guys were far more brutal and blood thirsty 😳😳😳 20,000 sacrifices a year? That’s like 416 people (including children) killed in the most brutal way every month, Damn…😳

[@femiosazuwa4849]

And that is why their civilization was destroyed. Evil will never last forever

[@cerberus6654]

Good job on the Nahuatl pronunciation! Two things you might want to address though. First, Nahuatl is uninflected unless there's an accent - so it's 'Tay-notch-teet-lan' with a hard 'a'. And Tlaloc is not, by any stretch, 'Tla-look'. It's 'Tla-lock'. But your 'tl' is really good. I know it's hard to figure out when the modern Mexican 'x' is 'ha' or 'sha' but you're fairly accurate.

[@matthewneddeau7993]

Is the language still practiced by every day speakers?

[@cerberus6654]

@@matthewneddeau7993 Absolutely! Probably by millions. My ex was from Veracruz (the state) and everyone in that part of the state spoke it and to many, Spanish was 'the second language'. Wherever I went in Mexico City I could hear it being spoken on the street and in shops. Currently it's having a real revival. In the Maya part of the country you can hear that language being spoken all over and down in Oaxaca plenty of people speak Otomi.

[@matthewneddeau7993]

@@cerberus6654 I’m from New Mexico. We still have large population of Natives speaking their mother language, especially the Diné or the Navajos, the different bands of Apache, and just about every Pueblo Indian has their language. I was always fascinated by linguists especially Native American languages

[@SoFilthy]

Human sacrifices have been going on since the dawn of time and still go on today behind close doors who else thinks ABORTIONS IS MODERN HUMAN SACRIFICES👁

[@eugeniovera7435]

Bingo

[@fivestring65ify]

Nope

[@ChrisJohnson-pl2zy]

I like the video but I found a gold relic that show cortes victory over the Aztec and it has a map on it

[@consolataisangia273]

Eeeee Bwana Yesu utawale milele Kwa kuja kwako duniani na kufa nakufufuka kwako Mimi mwenye dhambi nilisamehewa na nikapata Uhuru, thank you Jesus, yote ulimaliza msalabani.

[@818jessejames]

The Aztecs became Mexican Cartel’s and continued human sacrifice ☠️💀👽

[@Itsberkintime]

Funny how most cartel activity is in northern Mexico, the part where Spanish settlers and conquistadors remained😂

[@peterwestfield6387]

In the name of one or many of the thousands of Gods. Well done lads.

[@supernatural5354]

They never sacrificed people, or cut people's hearts out, and they did not believe in gods, but only one god,Ōmeteōtl (some people were also atheists) "Aztec calendar" is NOT a calendar it's just a stone table, they were not cannibals. This is a sick romanticized western depiction of indigenous people.

[@dreadway3]

Read REAL history. Not ideology.

[@sergioreyes298]

Oh yes, I enjoyed it very much, thank you! LOL.