Bush visit prompts blood sacrifice?
Mayan priests will be performing traditional ceremonies to purify their holy place after the evil dictator, Bush, visits next week:
GUATEMALA CITY - Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday. ~news.yahoo.com
Will these rites include the traditional bloody sacrifices of women, children, and other selected volunteers? Who knows? Or how many victims will be needed to overcome the evil of, “Mr. Danger?” We may have to wait to find out.
“That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,” Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday. ~news.yahoo.com
Yes, traditional mayan religious ceremonies included the time tested practice of human sacrifice. Or is that humane sacrifice? Nevermind.
I’ve always wondered what the response is from those who demonize western culture, and the U.S. in particular, and yet exhalt their own ‘indiginous’, traditional, and older cultures as being somehow more spiritual and valuable.
The greater the evil, the greater the sacrifice, right?
But there is no longer as much doubt about the nature of the killings. Indian pictorial texts known as “codices,” as well as Spanish accounts from the time, quote Indians as describing multiple forms of human sacrifice.
Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced to death, stoned, crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples.
Children were said to be frequent victims, in part because they were considered pure and unspoiled. ~livescience.com
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