>>510165639The cult of Quetzalcoatl was essentially an Aztec social movement against human sacrifice.
>>510166386Look into their god Tlaloc. He was a rain god that mothers were given financial compensation to offer up their children to.
They believed the tears of these children were an omen of a good rainy season and so the priests went out of their way to make their death as prolonged and agonizing as possible.
If you were a war prisoner, you'd probably be sacrificed to Huizalopochli and you'd just be covered in flowers and your beating heart cut out.
You might also be sacrificed to Tezcatlipoca and before to fight mock gladiator battles wielding fake wooden weapons while pitted up against fully geared Aztec warriors.
Either way it's better than being one of the children whose own mother sold to be tortured to death.