Scientists: We Still Practice Human Sacrifice

Because we are a barbaric, superstitious and absurd culture which needs a radical rethinking of values

Clem Samson
The Haven

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I remember when I first read about the cenotes, back in the 90s. I don’t know why I was reading up on pre-Columbian culture in the Yucatan, but I guess I used to read a lot more than I do these days (thanks a lot laptop, phone and streaming TV!)

It was quite shocking that these Mayan people who in many ways were so advanced (they had a more accurate calendar than ours apparently) were so brutal that they would throw young virgins to their deaths in these underground sinkholes filled with water in Yucatán.

They were hoping for rain or good crops.

That seems really irrational, doesn’t it? To kill a child in order to eat better?

Well, we do it all the time. The barbarity of our sacrifice far outstrips those of pre-Columbian civilization.

Of course, we don’t do as those other mezzo-Americans, the Aztecs, did — cut out the heart of the sacrificial victim with one of those wedge-shaped tools. Ouch!

Did the priests sometimes eat the heart? Maybe if the victim was from an enemy tribe?

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Clem Samson
The Haven

Humorist, satirist, poetist, journalist. Creative Writing Prof. Buy his The Seven Labyrinths here and go post ego! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3Q2CWS2