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RE: Sacrificing ― between Myth and Everyday Life
Ahh, this is awesome! Sacrifice is a very interesting part of human myth and history, and is incredibly old. The ancient Mayan peoples of South America also practiced sacrifice. They would go to war with other nobels only for the purpose of catching nobels and kings for sacrifice, and it was a large part of many ceremonies and important dates. They also cut themselves open, the penis and the tounge were the most sacred (And painful) areas and offer their blood to feed their ancestors. The king had the duty of cutting his most sacred area and publicly sacrificng his blood to the gods for all to see.
Thank you for putting together such a lovely article! I hope to learn more!
Thank you for you comment. I didn't know about Mayans customs. It's so interesting.
Hello Cae, what you're writing about Mayan culture is very interesting. Do you know some source on this you can recommend? Kind regards, Nadine
My main source is the wonderful book A Forest of Kings, the untold story of the ancient Maya by Linda Schele and David Freidel.
If you cannot find the book, there are a couple documentaries on youtube and some online sources, but as far as I can tell they do not nearly go into as much detail as this book does on all sorts of things about the Mayan civilization.
This book has about 500 or so pages, and its really a wonderful and imaginitive read that was suprisingly not boring and very engaging!
I hope this helps!