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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:14 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range

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\u0026show=my#35298386)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:24 PM
Author: Titillating Ebony Resort

(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: translucent trip station

underrated

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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: Filthy Autistic Kitty



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:55 PM
Author: milky dashing point codepig



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: talented chocolate home



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:40 AM
Author: Avocado trailer park incel



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Date: February 11th, 2018 8:00 AM
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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: Fuchsia Bearded Pocket Flask Pisswyrm



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:04 PM
Author: Irate Haunted Graveyard Dragon



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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: Racy round eye

damn, thats brutal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35298394)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: flesh curious corn cake

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\u0026show=my#35298397)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range

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\u0026show=my#35298439)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: adventurous know-it-all casino degenerate



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:17 PM
Author: dun jew

Fortuitous Aztec abduction

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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: irradiated organic girlfriend tanning salon

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\u0026show=my#35298438)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:21 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range

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\u0026show=my#35298450)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: irradiated organic girlfriend tanning salon

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\u0026show=my#35298459)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: nighttime roommate psychic

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\u0026show=my#35298616)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: adventurous know-it-all casino degenerate

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35314669)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Irate Haunted Graveyard Dragon

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\u0026show=my#35314711)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 8:19 AM
Author: Chrome international law enforcement agency

Brb vomiting

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Date: May 5th, 2018 4:07 AM
Author: Avocado trailer park incel

What the fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35985838)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: Sadistic hilarious cuck

female captives willingly dancing for their aztec chad captors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35298440)



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Date: February 1st, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: vivacious tantric address

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\u0026show=my#35298521)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: canary motley hunting ground

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\u0026show=my#35314156)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:27 AM
Author: Twinkling Giraffe Cumskin

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\u0026show=my#35375045)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: Exhilarant kink-friendly kitty cat marketing idea

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\u0026show=my#35314204)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 1:42 AM
Author: hairraiser henna famous landscape painting ratface

180

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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 3:26 PM
Author: Bisexual cracking people who are hurt masturbator

the losing sports team was killt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35314394)



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: Navy Field Bbw

Winning sports team

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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:03 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range

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\u0026show=my#39231209)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: Grizzly crotch associate

wow, that's fucked up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35314677)



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Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:34 PM
Author: lavender laughsome gay wizard coffee pot

We need more of them here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35314731)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:33 PM
Author: Arousing ocher shrine goyim



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Date: February 11th, 2018 7:54 AM
Author: swollen razzle-dazzle ceo

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\u0026show=my#35375610)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range

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\u0026show=my#35381241)



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Date: February 11th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: confused indian lodge alpha

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#35375886)



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Date: May 5th, 2018 2:42 AM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:21 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:24 PM
Author: High-end Pea-brained Sanctuary Blood Rage



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Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: godawful son of senegal therapy

"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\u0026show=my#39170333)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:07 PM
Author: cruel-hearted insecure range

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\u0026show=my#39231237)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:41 PM
Author: translucent trip station

Tranquillo Juan

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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:51 PM
Author: spectacular misanthropic bawdyhouse twinkling uncleanness



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:53 PM
Author: Orchid Galvanic Roast Beef

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#39231485)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: Aromatic opaque institution

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#39231556)



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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:56 PM
Author: Pontificating Elastic Band

Jaws is impossible to kill in the Aztec level iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#39231493)



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Date: February 19th, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: Hyperventilating digit ratio water buffalo



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Date: September 18th, 2022 2:56 PM
Author: canary motley hunting ground



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Date: September 18th, 2022 3:03 PM
Author: topaz multi-colored love of her life goal in life

Implemented the first compulsory public education institutions ever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2\u0026show=my#45191122)



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Date: September 18th, 2022 3:05 PM
Author: canary motley hunting ground

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\u0026show=my#45191129)