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See the past 4 posts I did, starting in >>716288502 to >>716289940: The whistles making screaming noises is prob nonsense, and 20,000 sacrifices for "the empire" a year is actually maybe too low, but also not methodlogically sound, and it's just not categorically sensical to do "empire" wide sacrifice totals, along the other nitpicks I mentioned in the last post I did

And my final point about just it being cherrypicked: The average person's day to day life (desuarchive.org/his/thread/7617096/#7619771) wouldn't have interacted with or thought about most that stuff, and was pretty comparable to what commoners in Medieval Europe and I suspect China etc were doing. Even for priests sacrifices were relatively infrequent. Webm related is the typical day in Tenochtitlan (tho Moctezuma II having the big headdress is wrong).

Not even the Spanish considered Aztec society that metal: They compared them to the Greeks and Romans as civilized pagans. Bloodletting, and at times even ritual cannibalism and sacrifices were compared to stuff like communion and christ's sacrifice, the macabre imagery in their art (and they did depictions of flowers, birds, etc as much as skulls etc) was compared to skeletal depictions of mortality in Catholic art etc. I realize this prob just sounds like 'NUH UH" but I hope my autistic obsessive explanations in other posts, and my transparency in admitting that even 20k sacrifices for the whole "empire" is maybe too low, what I say to the anon below etc speaks to my intellectual honesty

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This is wrong tho: Sacrificial burials of more then 100 people are RARE, but they existed. EX: the Great Skull Rack seems to have held 16,000 skulls. And yes, sacrifices tied into legit theology where it was a cosmic necessity, I think it's naive to say that, as in all religions, it wasn't twisted and leveraged towards political purposes.

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