Timeline for Is there any documentation that indicates the Aztecs were as violent as they are made out?
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| Sep 29, 2021 at 21:43 | history | edited | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added nahuatl word
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 18:34 | history | edited | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added paper by Izabela Wilkosz
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| Dec 21, 2018 at 21:06 | history | edited | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
correcting statement about priests
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| Jul 22, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | New Alexandria | @MoziburUllah sacrificing them did not make them god-like.... those who were made to become god-like were sacrificed. Death wasn't the door into having more teotl. Oddly, I propose that Homo Sacer is the opposite: these ixiptlas' initiation/'evolution' made them only suitable for sacrifice, and similarly they were guarded and chaperoned. Maybe I am unfamiliar with Agamben's interpretation. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:34 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | 'Those sacrificed become god-like' reminds me of Agambens Homo Sacer. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:32 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | For some reason I hadn't noticed this answer, this was what I was looking for 'any research conducted into how the Aztecs themselves percieved human sacrifice'. Thanks. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:28 | vote | accept | Mozibur Ullah | ||
| Jan 19, 2016 at 19:36 | comment | added | New Alexandria | @James All evidence points to yes, actually. The ritual of the Tezcatlipoca ixiptla demanded 'a perfect specimen' — and this was, as we would call it, a body-mind thing. Generally this would be the defeated captain of another's fighters — a role that would not be assigned to a low-class person regardless of how fit and attractive. *I'm glad to get contradicted on this if someone wants to point to a paper. | |
| Jan 19, 2016 at 8:32 | comment | added | James | Were all social classes represented in those who were sacrificed? | |
| Nov 13, 2012 at 0:17 | history | answered | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 3.0 |