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>The sacrifice was stripped and painted blue, which was the colour representing sacrifice, and was made to wear a peaked headdress. Four blue-painted attendants representing the four Chaacs of the cardinal directions stretched the sacrifice out over a convex stone that pushed the victim's chest upwards;[7] An official referred to as a nacom in Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán used a sacrificial knife made from flint to cut into the ribs just below the victim's left breast and pull out the still-beating heart.
>The nacom then passed the heart to the officiating priest, or chilan, who smeared blood upon the image of the temple's deity. Depending upon the exact ritual, sometimes the four Chaacs would throw the corpse down the pyramid steps to the courtyard below where it would be skinned by assistant priests, except for the hands and feet.
> The chilan would then remove his ritual attire and dress himself in the skin of the sacrificial victim before performing a ritual dance that symbolised the rebirth of life.
What the fuck
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Makes you wonder where this shit comes from. I mean the fact that this happened means that at some point someone must have said something like "Hey, uh, the gods told me it would be a good idea if after the sacrifice we danced around wearing the victim's skin. You know, to symbolize rebirth." And some other people just nodded their heads and said "Yeah, I guess that makes sense."
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>>3174533
Must have been some real psychos around back in the day.
In Europe you have the thousands of dead bodies found in bogs, ritually killed every year to bring back the summer.
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>>3174533
Human is the most valuable thing on earth thus offering a human to a god is a sign of respect.
Animal sacrifice just wasnt enough to appease the gods.
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>>3174533
Maxa mumbana humans work for The psycho They add people fit tanatosi ad young says there is gace of tanatos in human s And They actual from or to performed They sacrifice need death And life for life
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>>3174533
Frazer's The Golden Bough tries to give some insight into the origin of belief systems all over the world, though I can't recall if he treated mayan sacrifice especifically. Chances are he did.
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>>3176972
I think most of these are the abridged version.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=the+golden+bough
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