Wild Methods Applied in Aztec Rites

Although many civilizations have traditions of sacrificing people Aztecs, whose names are always mentioned with their brutal scenes that you can hardly imagine For many, these practices were a very important part of their belief system.

For the sake of performing their rituals, they themselves, and sometimes even their children, so to speak. not refraining from throwing into fire Let’s take a closer look at the traditions of this civilization.

According to a tradition quite common in society, the firstborn child or a slave in its stead had to be offered as a sacrifice.

The Aztecs would repeat this ritual every 20 days, and before the child or slave to be sacrificed was killed, like Texcoco and Tlacopan. temples at the top of the great pyramids would be taken.

During rituals, often sacrifice; stretched on a special stone, his chest was slit open and his heart was removed using an obsidian or flint blade. This heart was then placed in a stone vessel and the sacrifice was offered to the god and burned.

This tradition represented the communal eating of the body of the god Huitzilopochtli or Vitzilipastli as a kind of bread. For this purpose, the person who was sacrificed body and bloodwas added to the dough, kneaded and eaten.

In addition to the heart, various limbs or the head of the victim could also be cut off.

Some researchers suggest that this method is typically based on imitations of gods such as Chalchiuhtlicue. She says she’s special to female victims but according to what is told by the Spaniards in various codices, it also states that decapitated corpses were thrown down the steps of the pyramids.

Another ritual has to do with the victim’s skin.

In this tradition, which is performed by flaying the victim, a person wearing the flayed skin wanders among the people and that abundance will come with the blood scattering from the skin it was believed. In fact, dismembering and eating the corpse was also part of this sacrificial ritual.

This Aztec custom of sacrificing man, seen as a symbol of god meat and the belief that human meat dedicated to God should be eaten by sharing.

In addition to these, a kind of game was played to the votives and the losing team paid the price of the defeat with their lives.

In these ceremonies held on the sacred mountains, especially to honor the rain god Tlaloc, children as well as adults could be sacrificed because the tears of the child offerings, to calm the rain was believed.

Victims could also be sacrificed in a process such as having a single victim fight in a gladiator tournament against a team of warriors.

With this struggle, it was not possible for the victim to get rid of the warrior team and inflict any damage to their opponents, because the victim was not just tied to a stone platform. At the same time his weapon was a feathered stick and his opponents had very sharp obsidian swords.

In another ritual, victims were tied to a wooden frame and showered with darts or arrows. Again throwing victims into the fireIt was undoubtedly one of the most terrifying practices.

After the rituals, the heads of the victims could be displayed for decoration, and the meat of the victims was eaten by the ruling elite, the warriors who captured the victims, or the priests who performed the ritual.

In 1486, Aztec priests had to consecrate a temple they had built. 7000 people sacrificed and during these rituals, the priests sacrificed themselves by breaking their breasts by falling into ecstasy many times.

Europeans examining the area, on the other hand, are in a timber-framed building in the capital Teocalli. 136,000 human heads lined up to the ceiling counted. Researchers state that these skulls belong entirely to the victims, and they are still working on the subject.