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| Florentine Codex, Page I, F, 6r. |
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| A heart sacrifice
is done before the altar of an earth or
underworld deity with a ferocious image. The sacrificial priest wears black body paint. Below, two worshippers carrying white incense pouches pierce their tongues and ears with large bone awls. On their right, a ball of copal burns above an offering of paper. Tudela Codex. |
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| The great droughts of 1450-1454 led
to massive sacrifice of children to water deities.
Telleriano-Remensis Codex. |
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| Tlatelolco. The remains of 41 sacrificial
victims. 30 infants and the rest youths and
adults found at the foot of the stairway of the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl temple. |
Child's skull from human sacrifice at Tlatelolco.
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ARTIFACTS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN SACRIFICE
ARTICLES:
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Cannibalism: An Ecological Necessity?
The
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