Who Did the Aztecs Sacrifice?

[Judi Lynn]

Who Did the Aztecs Sacrifice?

Monday, January 25, 2016


Mexico City Aztec Sacrifice
(INAH)

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Scholars have long assumed that the people the Aztecs sacrificed at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlán were prisoners of war who were killed soon after being captured. But EFE reports that a new strontium isotope analysis of remains belonging to several sacrificed individuals who lived between 1469 and 1521 is challenging that view. The study, led by National Institute of Anthropology and History archaeologist Allan Barrera, shows that some of the victims were foreigners who lived in the Valley of Mexico among the Aztecs for at least six years. It's possible the remains belong not to captured warriors, but prisoners of high rank who served the Aztec elite for some time before eventually being sacrificed. To read more about Aztec archaeology, go to “Under Mexico City.”

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4096-160125-aztecs-tenochtitlan-human-sacrifices

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Here's the linked article, very interesting:

Under Mexico City

Beneath the capital's busy streets, archaeologists are discovering the buried world of the Aztecs

By ROGER ATWOOD
Monday, June 09, 2014

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/138-1407/features/2173-mexico-city-aztec-buried-world

Anthropology:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12292514

[Kalidurga]

1. I could have sworn that is what one of my friends in Anthropology told me

That the people sacrificed were of a high rank. That they were well taken care of for a year before the sacrifice and they were not afraid to die. We had a rather long conversation about that and that is at least what I understood. I don't know if she claimed they were foreigners that lived among them or not. Oh she is half Mixtec btw.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It would seem the legends passed through generations of indigenous citizens would be closer

to the truth than anything the well-armed invading forces would have passed along to future generations.

It would really be great if the sacrificed people had prepared themselves mentally to go through the event without being terrorized out of their minds in the process, and heart-broken.

We do know of people who have faced shocking deaths who have controlled their minds and not seemed to go mad, as in the cases of Buddhist monks who sacrificed themselves to bring the world's attention to the atrocities being committed against their fellow beings in VietNam.