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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:14 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker

Every year the Aztecs performed thousands of human sacrifices, and many sacrificial victims were prisoners who had been captured from neighboring tribes. Ordinarily you would expect a POW to resist being sacrificed, but it turns out that many Aztec sacrificial victims were required to perform special dances, lead chants, and perform other public spectacles. So prisoners who we sacrificed according to these rituals must have done so at least somewhat voluntarily. Also they must have either received instruction or have already known how to perform the required rituals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298386)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:24 PM
Author: flirting exhilarant set

(biglaw associate "volunteering" for "emergency" research project at 8:45 p.m. on a Friday evening)

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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:40 PM
Author: trip offensive volcanic crater therapy

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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: talented saffron boiling water theater stage



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:55 PM
Author: scarlet center



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: Cream dashing black woman national



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:40 AM
Author: Abusive Nofapping Cuckoldry Parlor



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Date: February 11th, 2018 8:00 AM
Author: Sadistic friendly grandma school



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: titillating frozen main people address



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:04 PM
Author: Balding jade stage



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Date: February 21st, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: Post nut horror



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:15 PM
Author: Narrow-minded mind-boggling location weed whacker

damn, thats brutal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298394)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: Cerebral den

I'm guessing most of them, like ISIS, were lied to about their fate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298397)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker

If you've ever looked at how Aztecs built and decorated their cities it would have been pretty fucking clear what was happening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298439)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: jet indian lodge



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:17 PM
Author: Irradiated chrome step-uncle's house french chef

Fortuitous Aztec abduction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298417)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: violet old irish cottage haunted graveyard

There was one sacrifice where a volunteer was treated like a god for one year, given four beautiful women as companions, and afterwards sacrificed to Tezcatlipoca

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298438)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:21 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker

Yeah that was the best. He was basically the biggest celebrity in the empire for that year. His sacrifice involved climbing the temple steps, having his heart removed, having his skin flayed, and the NEXT dood who would play that role for the next year would wear his skin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298450)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: violet old irish cottage haunted graveyard

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/295ha6/what_was_life_like_for_tezcatlipocas_ixiptla/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298459)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: very tactful grizzly alpha home

sounds very kooky -- analogous to how we expect our rock stars today to be kanye-level cray cray for a year and then flame out in a massive OD/car accident, with the gory video broadcast into every home

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298616)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: jet indian lodge

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314669)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Balding jade stage

Key attribute of the guy they were looking for "he was not bald"

They also made their enemies eat their own hands which a lot of the cartels do today because they think they're carrying on some aztec warrior tradition

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314711)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 8:19 AM
Author: plum depressive

Brb vomiting

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Date: May 5th, 2018 4:07 AM
Author: Abusive Nofapping Cuckoldry Parlor

What the fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35985838)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: Godawful contagious state

female captives willingly dancing for their aztec chad captors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298440)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: vengeful cowardly church wrinkle

Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec, known as "Our Lord the Flayed One," is the god of rebirth, agriculture, the seasons, and craftsmen.[34]

Xipe Totec was worshipped extensively during the festival of Tlacaxipehualiztli, in which captured warriors and slaves were sacrificed in the ceremonial center of the city of Tenochtitlan. For forty days prior to their sacrifice one victim would be chosen from each ward of the city to act as ixiptla, dress and live as Xipe Totec. The victims were then taken to the Xipe Totec's temple where their hearts would be removed, their body dismembered and their body parts divided up to be later eaten. Prior to their death and dismemberment the victims skin would be removed, and worn by individuals who traveled throughout the city fighting battles and collecting gifts from the citizens. [35]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35298521)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Zippy violent gaping abode

xipe totec death rituals were really varied from what I remember. There were many different ways you could get pwned.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314156)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:27 AM
Author: irate gas station

Pic of xipe totec figure wearing the dead skin mask of a flayed victim.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49393687@N05/28309241999/in/datetaken-public/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35375045)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: Rambunctious Hissy Fit Dilemma

The conquistadors Cortés and Alvarado found that some of the sacrificial victims they freed “indignantly rejected [the] offer of release and demanded to be sacrificed.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314204)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:42 AM
Author: supple misunderstood station masturbator

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35375110)



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 3:26 PM
Author: Ivory floppy point

the losing sports team was killt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314394)



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: Adulterous sapphire public bath gay wizard

Winning sports team

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39170331)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:03 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker

Depended on who you won against. Some games were purely competitive, but others were ceremonial and the flow of the game was supposed to reflect the movement of the sun. If you fucked that up then yeah, you were probably going to die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39231209)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: indigo house

wow, that's fucked up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314677)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:34 PM
Author: Vibrant candlestick maker locale

We need more of them here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35314731)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:33 PM
Author: Autistic Hairraiser Chapel



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Date: February 11th, 2018 7:54 AM
Author: Histrionic mustard goal in life

When you're that kind of primitive and your side gets its shit pushed in, you figure the gods favored your enemy and you rationally take the side of those gods

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35375610)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker

Apparently their concept of the afterlife depended on how you died. If you died of natural causes/old age, you had to undergo a series of extremely grueling trials in order to have a good afterlife. But if you died in battle or as a sacrificial victim, you went direct to the front of the line.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35381241)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: Spruce razzle shitlib persian

Did their society disappear because they paid repatriations to their slaves?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#35375886)



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Date: May 5th, 2018 2:42 AM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:21 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:24 PM
Author: Cheese-eating orchestra pit



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: Ocher theatre

"We" don't "know" any of this. At best, some archaeologists looked at carvings of hunters and jaguars and stars and stuff and said "ah yes they are describing the ancient ritual of tixtuopec in which they believed the jaguar was the pathway to the heavens if the hunters consume them."

Imagine if some future archeologist went into a cathedral and looked at the stained glass windows of Daniel in the Lion's Den and wrote a bunch of faggy internet articles about our kooky tradition of sacrificing the bravest warrior to lions every year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39170333)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:07 PM
Author: marvelous khaki gunner windowlicker

As I stated above, Aztecs believed certain forms of death guaranteed an easy passage into the afterlife. Ritual sacrifice bring one of them, dying in battle was another. The worst thing that could happen to you was to lose a battle but NOT die, and then live on to old age. There was a lot of cross-polinization among prehistoric mexican tribes and a lot of them ended up worshipping variants of the same God, so it's entirely conceivable that they would have shared the Aztecs' beliefs about this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39231237)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:41 PM
Author: trip offensive volcanic crater therapy

Tranquillo Juan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39231441)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:51 PM
Author: silver buck-toothed box office



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:53 PM
Author: hilarious chartreuse new version

Not true, unless you don't believe the accounts of the conquistadors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39231485)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: curious magical crackhouse jap

Spanish saw this with their own eyes. The skull towers are verified.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39231556)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:56 PM
Author: Impertinent pozpig forum

Jaws is impossible to kill in the Aztec level iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#39231493)



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Date: February 19th, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: dark gaming laptop



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Date: September 18th, 2022 2:56 PM
Author: Zippy violent gaping abode



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Date: September 18th, 2022 3:03 PM
Author: Clear arousing tanning salon

Implemented the first compulsory public education institutions ever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#45191122)



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Date: September 18th, 2022 3:05 PM
Author: Zippy violent gaping abode

It's very unlikely it was the first. I think anyone trying to reverse engineer Teotihuacan would conclude that they likely had some kind of compulsory education. Also the Aztecs themselves did not become scholarly until they settled on the lake. Prior to that time they were nomads the other mexican civs like the Zapotecs looked down on. Aztecs had to work to earn the respect of these other tribes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2#45191129)