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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:14 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298386)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:24 PM
Author: stirring toilet seat temple

(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: dull fat ankles library

underrated

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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: high-end affirmative action voyeur



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:55 PM
Author: rose factory reset button



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: Canary property



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:40 AM
Author: filthy dun pocket flask love of her life



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Date: February 11th, 2018 8:00 AM
Author: ultramarine whorehouse



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: kink-friendly red hell



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:04 PM
Author: underhanded insane bawdyhouse indirect expression



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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: Lake harsh office dopamine

damn, thats brutal.

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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: Navy goyim stage

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298397)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298439)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: mildly autistic razzmatazz stag film



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:17 PM
Author: carmine 180 background story crackhouse

Fortuitous Aztec abduction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298417)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: sickened khaki stead macaca

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298438)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:21 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298450)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: sickened khaki stead macaca

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298459)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: odious deer antler hissy fit

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298616)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: mildly autistic razzmatazz stag film

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314669)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: underhanded insane bawdyhouse indirect expression

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314711)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 8:19 AM
Author: cream talking heaven

Brb vomiting

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Date: May 5th, 2018 4:07 AM
Author: filthy dun pocket flask love of her life

What the fuck

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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: Dark range

female captives willingly dancing for their aztec chad captors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298440)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: Shivering appetizing jap

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35298521)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Multi-colored Electric Furnace

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314156)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:27 AM
Author: passionate ticket booth circlehead

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35375045)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: low-t piazza gay wizard

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314204)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:42 AM
Author: Gay histrionic quadroon

180

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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 3:26 PM
Author: Magenta elastic band

the losing sports team was killt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314394)



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: Alcoholic Chapel Boiling Water

Winning sports team

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#39170331)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:03 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#39231209)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: Lime racy digit ratio address

wow, that's fucked up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314677)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:34 PM
Author: know-it-all stock car really tough guy

We need more of them here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35314731)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:33 PM
Author: Cordovan garrison depressive



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Date: February 11th, 2018 7:54 AM
Author: Galvanic sienna idea he suggested theater

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35375610)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#35381241)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: Avocado Legend

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#35375886)



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Date: May 5th, 2018 2:42 AM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:21 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:24 PM
Author: Ruddy pozpig



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: shimmering ladyboy

"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\u0026mark_id=5310443#39170333)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:07 PM
Author: arousing flesh school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#39231237)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:41 PM
Author: dull fat ankles library

Tranquillo Juan

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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:51 PM
Author: Deranged area



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:53 PM
Author: indecent gaped sex offender dog poop

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#39231485)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: Maize Gunner National

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#39231556)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:56 PM
Author: Cyan psychic

Jaws is impossible to kill in the Aztec level iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#39231493)



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Date: February 19th, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: Orchid Hyperventilating Theatre Messiness



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Date: September 18th, 2022 2:56 PM
Author: Multi-colored Electric Furnace



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Date: September 18th, 2022 3:03 PM
Author: Plum candlestick maker

Implemented the first compulsory public education institutions ever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310443#45191122)



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Date: September 18th, 2022 3:05 PM
Author: Multi-colored Electric Furnace

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\u0026mark_id=5310443#45191129)