XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>>The references may be convincing to you, but that doesn't make them   
   >>>>> legitimate.  He's full of shit, trying to deny reality.  The Mayans   
   >>>>> practiced brutal human sacrifice.  Deal with it.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> The issues have been discussed at great length on the FAMSI (Foundation   
   >>> for the Advancement of MesoAmerican Studies) by some of the world's   
   >>> leading experts in Mayan history, language and culture. The general   
   >>> agreement was that the movie was a crude misrepresentation of the role   
   >>> human sacrifice among the Maya, although the costumes and settings were   
   >>> accurate. The Maya did occasionally practice human sacrifice, but the   
   >>> actual physical evidence consists of a few hundred -- if that many --   
   >>> victims over period of at least a thousand years.   
   >>>   
   >   
   >   
   > It's true that the Maya weren't as bloodthirsty as the Aztec, but they   
   > practiced human sacrifice.  The numbers are debatable, but it happened.   
      
      
   The practices of pretty much all of the Indians of the Americas   
   have been grossly sanitized in modern history. They were not a   
   nice bunch of people. There was nothing noble about these savages,   
   who were savage to the extreme. Some tribes were worse than others   
   -- that's about the best you can say. Christians coming from the   
   new world naturally abhorred human sacrifice and cannibalism. Why   
   wouldn't they? They found the natives to be treacherous, vicious   
   bastards. There are exceptions here and there, when natives did   
   something nice for Europeans. Mostly, though, they just tortured   
   and murdered them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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