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Originally Posted by Tophat665
I took a class on mesoamerican cultures in College. the one thing that really sticks with me was how fucked up the aztecs were. Their idea of a religious thing to do was to take a cord strudded with thorns, pierce their tender bits, and drag the cord back and forth through it. They were so into human sacrifice that there is actually a class of artifact called a <i>tzompli</i> (or something very like that) which is a rack for holding multipe skulls from multiple sacrifices.
Not nice people. If ever was a culture that probably needed to be killed off....
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I think they also pulled the cords through a piercing in their tongues. If I am remembering this correctly, the Aztec capitol city, I can't remember it's name right now but it's now present day Mexico City, was built where it is because the Aztec king had a dream saying that they should wander until they saw a bird(I think it was an eagle) sitting on a cactus and build a great city on that spot, so they wandered until they saw this, it happened to be on an island in the middle of a lake. Now your probably saying to your self, "wait a minute, Mexico City isn't on an island", well it's not now but it used to be, the lake was filled in to make more land for buildings, which is one of the reasons that Mexico City is the largest city in the world. Did anyone else know this? BTW it's not bullshit, it's a true story.
