Me: Twenty Seconds to Immortality

[Michael Mccafferty]

Human sacrifice gets people's attention, then and now. It's just
salesmanship in one form or another. Dark roots. I imagine that when, as
these days, it's not culturally "sanctioned," (from "sanctus" 'holy'),
then it oozes out in some other form-- genocide, perhaps.

The late prehistoric and early historic Nahua peoples were obviously
amazing folks. If I were a descendent, I'd certainly feel proud of my
ancestors regardless. It seems that one aspect of their culture that has
received little lipservice (tenyotl!), is the obviously important place in
that was occupied by entheogenic plants, and their influence on
cosmology, art, song, hunting, war...(human sacrifice?)...




On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, micc2 wrote:

>  "The number itself, however, indicates "muchos"."  EXACTLY!! Lost to modern readers who know nothing about allegorical or symbolic speech, is the fact that certain numbers do not mean EXACTLY that number but QUANTITIES.
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> Lost in the layman's (and revisionist's) conversation is the symbolic rather than the literal representation. To echo another writer:
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> "My question was more one of frustration around the seemingly continual expectation that that is what we apparently must study, if we study the Aztecs; that apparently there is little else of interest."
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> Of course,  having the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel and Time-Life books always re-hash this subject, and then having the neo -mexi'cas  deny everything does not help!!!!
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> mario
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> Michael Mccafferty wrote:
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> >Human sacrifice is a normal human behavior, or was, has been. It's not
> >pretty. But then humans are not always pretty.
> >
> >I imagine that the number of sacrifices, that 80,000+ thing, was never
> >really known by anyone for sure who was there on at the scene. The number
> >itself, however, indicates "muchos".
> >
> >Miguelton
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> >
> >
>

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