{"id":2471,"date":"2012-01-04T22:24:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T11:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2012-01-04T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T11:24:07","slug":"mass-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/01\/mass-sacrifice-2471.html","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Inca Mass Sacrifice – Amazing Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, and read about the Aztecs, you’ll be aware that horrific sacrifices were made to please the gods. In the case of the Aztecs, it was to postpone the end of the world. In recent news items that tell us there is no doomsday, they often show the Aztec<\/em> Sun Stone and call it the Mayan <\/em>calendar. And that Sun Stone features glyphs about the previous doomsdays!<\/p>\n

The Aztecs were pretty closely related to the Maya, and they were so scared of the impending apocalypse they slaughtered their own people. The pre-Inca of Peru also conducted mass sacrifices, and they drank beer whilst doing so:<\/p>\n

The pyramid is part of the Sic\u00e1n site, the capital of the Lambayeque people\u2014also known as the Sic\u00e1n\u2014who ruled Peru’s northern coast from about A.D. 900 to 1100.<\/p>\n
Perhaps more than a hundred bodies\u2014buried nude and some of them headless\u2014lie in the newfound pit…<\/p>\n
The brewery’s placement on the edge of the pit suggests the Sic\u00e1n held a solemn burial feast in which vast quantities of chicha were consumed by the living and offered to the dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I would’ve thought that pyramids and ritual sacrifice would be enough to suggest strong cultural connections (between the Inca and Aztec) but archaeologists want to see the same pattern on earthenware…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, and read about the Aztecs, you’ll be aware that horrific sacrifices were made to please the gods. In the case of the Aztecs, it was to postpone the end of the world. In recent news items that tell us there is no doomsday, they often show the Aztec Sun Stone and call it the Mayan calendar. And that Sun Stone features glyphs about the previous doomsdays!
\nThe Aztecs were pretty closely related to the Maya, and they were so scared of the impending apocalypse they slaughtered their own people. The pre-Inca of Peru also conducted mass sacrifices, and they drank beer whilst doing so:
\nThe pyramid is part of the Sic\u00e1n site, the capital of the Lambayeque people\u2014also known as the Sic\u00e1n\u2014who ruled Peru’s northern coast from about A.D. 900 to 1100.
\nPerhaps more than a hundred bodies\u2014buried nude and some of them headless\u2014lie in the newfound …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}