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>>149553995
Anon I've barely even talked about the movie, how am I shilling

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Maybe I'm forgetting something, but people weren't dismembered for rain gods: Sacrifices to rain gods typically involved children, dwarfs, or hunchbacks being slowly tortured to death (most sacrifices were not intentionally painful or drawn out but the more they cried the more it would rain) or (IIRC?) being buried alive

You're just completely talking out of your ass with the rape thing: Rape straight up doesn't come up in records on Prehispanic history, society, or warfare almost at all. It wasn't an element of any sacrifices and it seemingly wasn't done during conquests or sacks (which the Mexica of the Aztec capital also didn't even do in conquests that much, though they did occasionally) much either. There's maybe a single instance I vaguely remember of the latter happening?

The only thing that's even vaguely not-rare that's rape-y is that that noblewomen and princesses given as political marriages to their conquerors or capitals would be presumably doing so under pressure and I'm sure that at least occasionally resulted in compelled sex, but that's not different from political marriages anywhere else in the world

>>149553447
One criticism I do have as of the latest trailer and comes up here is that they seem to be projecting Aztec social/class stuff and aesthetics to other areas that didn't have the same cultures or practices: Yohuali/Bruce's town seems to be on the Atlantic coast and it'd be unusual (tho not out of the question) for a town there to be Nahua/"culturally Aztec" (depending on where, they'd probably be Tootnac, see pic, or Maya)

And re: last part of that image, the Mexica were very classist (at least under the traditional interpretation), so erasing class divides against an outside threat is also a bit iffy, tho also based on what I just said, Bruce coming from another town might mean he'd be more open to that

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