Archaeologists unearth Aztec Skull tower

AleksandarN · Dec 19, 2020

Xerobull said: ↑

read a Sci-Fi book by Orson Scott Card called Pastwatch (spoilers) that postulated that Christopher Columbus was the turning point to the eventual end of the world, so the future people start mucking around with the past to try to prevent it, but at one point alternate futures screw things up, Europe exhausts it's resources in a prolonged war against the Muslim countries, and meanwhile the Aztecs keep developing and go through an industrial revolution and conquer Europe while still keeping their bloody religion. .
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Sounds like Ordon was playing civilization

rocketsjudoka · Dec 19, 2020

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cool! well, maybe not for the owners of those skulls.

the main cathedral in mexico city was built from the stones of the aztec temples. the templo mayor is right next to the cathedral and you can tour it. definitely check it out if you ever go to mexico city. im guessing thats where they discovered the skull rack. i was there about 10 years ago and they were doing a lot of archeological digs around there. when the spanish conquered tenochtitlan they basically just razed everything and built mexico city on top of the aztec capital so all these temples were hiding just underground for centuries. they only discovered the templo mayor in the late 70's when the electric company was putting new lines in.

aztecs were dicks to all their neighbors and thats the main reason why the spanish were able to conquer them. and rocketsjudoka is correct...aztecs didnt try to kill their enemies in battle...they wanted to take them prisoner to bring them back to tenochtitlan for sacrifice. they believed that the sun needed human blood in order to rise every day. they would march prisoners up to the top of the temple, four priests would hold down their arms and legs and stretch them out over a huge stone while the head priest cut their chest open with an obsidian blade and pulled out their still beating heart, just like in indiana jones and the temple of doom. they would then cut off the the head and roll the body down the temple steps. the aztecs would also often eat their victims and flay them and wear their skin during ceremonial dances.

supposedly, when this temple was completed the aztecs christened it by sacrificing tens of thousands of people over the course of just 4 days.

during the battle of tenochtitlan the aztecs actually captured cortez on more than one occasion and could have killed him on the spot, but they wanted to sacrifice him, but his soldiers were able to rescue him. the spanish could actually watch their captured comrades being sacrificed from their encampments outside the city each night. and the aztecs would taunt them during battle by rolling the heads of sacrificed spaniards towards them like bowling balls.

aztecs were f***ing psychos.
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This could go into stuff I learned during Quarantine. Why the Aztecs believed that sacrifice was necessary to make sure the Sun rose was that they believed that in animals and humans there was a spark of the Sun's energy and that's why living animals (mammals and birds at least) feel warm. That energy was held in the heart and one reason why the heart kept on beating even after animal died. If they didn't release that energy the Sun would eventually run out of energy. During sacrifice not only would they take the heart out they would then burn it while still beating so the energy would be released.

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