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<P>there are a substantial difference between twenty seconds and four thousand years. you are looking from a very partial point of view, to say "it's not pretty". I think those people - pre columbian mesoamericans - may consider it "pretty". </P>
<P>>From: Michael Mccafferty <mmccaffe@INDIANA.EDU> </P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: Nahua language and culture discussion <NAHUAT-L@LISTS.UMN.EDU>
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<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Me: Twenty Seconds to Immortality
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:09:58 -0500
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<DIV></DIV>>Human sacrifice is a normal human behavior, or was, has been. It's not
<DIV></DIV>>pretty. But then humans are not always pretty.
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<DIV></DIV>>I imagine that the number of sacrifices, that 80,000+ thing, was never
<DIV></DIV>>really known by anyone for sure who was there on at the scene. The number
<DIV></DIV>>itself, however, indicates "muchos".
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<DIV></DIV>>Miguelton
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