XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: darthchipotle@hotmail.com   
      
   Al Smith wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
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   >   
   > 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.   
      
      
   I want to know when the Neanderthals are going to get restitution from   
   the massacre they recieved from the Cro-Magnon.....   
      
      
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