A Brief History Of Human Sacrifice: The Aztecs
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2022
- The Aztecs were a civilisation who lived in Central Mexico from 1300 to 1521. History has painted the Aztecs as a strange civilisation, one capable of great intelligence and architectural marvels, who simultaneously worshipped a bunch of strange, angry gods and routinely ritually sacrificed each other to them.
A lot of our beliefs about the Aztecs trace back to 1519 and the Spanish conquerors of the time and although we accept that human sacrifice was a part of their culture and religion, the extent of it is still debated today.
The fall of the Aztec Empire and our subsequent beliefs on human sacrifice in their culture, can be traced back to 1519 and the expedition of Hernán Cortés that culminated in the conquest of the capital Tenochtitlan and the fall of the Aztec Empire by 1521.
Upon arrival in Tenochtitlan, Cortes reported discoveries of the practice of human sacrifice, horrifying the general public and lending credence to the conquest. Its thanks to the Spanish writings of the time that people saw Aztecs as a horrifying civilisation who routinely murdered its own people. But how true is it? Lets find out more in today's video.
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Human sacrifice carried out in public terrified the people and kept them obedient to their overlords. Fear is a powerful weapon of control. Still works even today.
Imagine the horror of the man who thought they were peaceful and gave his daughter to marry the chief. He snuck back later not invited to a wedding, and seen his daughter skinned and alive as their priest put her skin on and was throwing a huge murder torture party instead of a wedding. Seriously. Can't believe no one mentions that.
The ultimate example of nature worship that was doomed to failure. No wonder so many of the Aztecs neighbors joined Cortes in fighting the Aztecs.
Have you noticed the priests never offer to sacrifice themselves?
Spain had a positive influence in that part of the world
It's the Cartels who are killing people like this now.
Prime example of what human can normalise something horrible just because of the cultural influence
I understand that they didn't have science to explain stuff, so they believed in gods, but why did their beliefs become so barbaric? How did they get into their heads they needed human sacrifice? Why couldn't they believe, for example, you could cook a feast (not containing humans) and offer it to the gods? I reckon some really messed up people in charge used this to control others and blamed it on the gods to justify it.
No wonder so many tribes joined forces with Cortes.
Aztecs believed to save mankind humans have to be Sacrificed to Gods... When the Spanish landed with their belief that God sacrificed himself to save mankind, that must have sounded sooo strange and such a relief for them 😅
This channel never fails to remind me
So getting picked to be sacrificed would be kind of like receiving an army draft notice from The Aztecs..."Greetings citizen, the chief sacrificial priests requests your presents at the Temple of Doom""
Very informative. It’s the most detailed of anything I’ve read about the rituals of the Aztecs. I’ve read ‘The Golden Conquistadors’, and the descriptions quoted by witnesses at the time describe the enormous numbers sacrificed in just one ceremony. Astonishing to the modern mind to conceive of such atrocities, and, yet, we still ‘sacrifice’ human lives for one reason or another today.
Great video! Closed Caption was a hoot.
Great video and break down!
5,000 war captives were shot full of arrows on top of the war sun god temple and fell off the temple 150 feet high. A huge fire of burning logs were waiting down below. As they fell into the fire they would jump up and run out of the scalding fires. Waiting Aztec warriors would then. Beat them to death. This was the most horrific of ceremonies
Great video!
I could have lived the rest of my life without knowing this
They sacrificed 20,000 people a year! Omg I didn't know it was that bad.
They had ssoooo many gods, and sacrificed for sun, rain, crops, fertility, etc....all requiring...blood. Man, woman, child...did not matter. (yes they raided and took captives....but when they had none...well, you guessed it ). Imagine waking up one morning and "they" came for you...wow...you're it ! !