- Rack'em Up! -
Mankind has had a turbulent past as history and archeology can attest. In this dark past, humanity has killed for both religious and political reasons. The French Revolution, as other revolutions have, ended with the heads of French aristocracy under the guillotine. The Crusades of the middle ages was a religious movement that ultimately ended with many deaths for non-christians.
Recently, archeologists have been finding more and more evidence that the Aztec Empire and its people practiced human sacrifice under the auspices of religion. As more archeological sites of the Aztecs are discovered and excavated, a clearer picture of some of their religious beliefs and practices is emerging, ultimately confirming that the Aztec Empire did practice human sacrifice regularly. In the latest news to come out of Aztec archeology, researchers have found that the Aztecs had a collection of human skulls that numbered in the thousands and they housed all these human skulls in a ceremonial type rack or altar, called the tzompantli, that was as big as a professional basketball court and several meters high.
No human life should ever be lost to political or religious beliefs, unfortunately we can not change the past but we can learn from it. Now there is no right or wrong answer to today's Question of the Day but rather it is an open ended question meant to stimulate thought and conversation in light of the recent Aztec archeological findings and how they relate to our past, present and future.
Which is worse, Chopping heads for religious purposes as in sacrificial offerings or rolling heads for social/political revolution such as the beheading or lynching of a king, dictator or political tyrant? And Why?
Here are a few screen shots of the work in progress as I make the artwork for this post
Here are a couple links to news stories regarding the Aztec sacrifices:
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