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From Skulls & Bones to Skull & Bones: The Bush-Mex Illegal Alien Connection |
Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders
By Catherine Bremer
Wed Aug 23
Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured,
ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling
with invading Spanish forces in 1520.
Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site near Mexico City
show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in
ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or
scraped clean, experts say.
The findings support accounts of Aztecs capturing and killing a caravan
of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children traveling
with them in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king of the Aztec
empire's No. 2 city of Texcoco.
Experts say the discovery proves some Aztecs did resist the
conquistadors, led by explorer Hernan Cortes, before the Spaniards
attacked the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City.
History books say many indigenous Mexicans welcomed the white-skinned
horsemen in the belief they were returning gods but turned against the
Spaniards once they tried to take over the Aztec seat of power in a
conflict that ended in 1521.
"This is the first place that has so much evidence there was resistance
to the conquest," said archaeologist Enrique Martinez, director of the
dig at Calpulalpan in Tlaxcala state, near Texcoco.
"It shows it wasn't all submission. There was a fight."
The caravan was apparently captured because it was made up mostly of
the mulatto, mestizo, Maya Indian and Caribbean men and women given to
the Spanish as carriers and cooks when they landed in Mexico in 1519,
and so was moving slowly.
The prisoners were kept in cages for months while Aztec priests
selected a few each day at dawn, held them down on a sacrificial slab,
cut out their hearts and offered them up to various Aztec gods.
Some may have been given hallucinogenic mushrooms or pulque -- an
alcoholic milky drink made from fermented cactus juice -- to numb them
to what was about to happen.
TEETH MARKS
"It was a continuous sacrifice over six months. While the prisoners
were listening to their companions being sacrificed, the next ones were
being selected," Martinez said, standing in his lab amid boxes of
bones, some of young children.
"You can only imagine what it was like for the last ones, who were left
six months before being chosen, their anguish."
The priests and town elders, who performed the rituals on the steps of
temples cut off by a perimeter wall, sometimes ate their victims' raw
and bloody hearts or cooked flesh from their arms and legs once it
dropped off the boiling bones.
Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat
stripped off to be eaten, Martinez said.
Aztec warriors whitened the bones with lime and carried them as
amulets. Some were used as ornaments in homes.
In Aztec times, the site was called Zultepec, a town of white-stucco
temples and homes where some 5,000 people grew maize and beans and
produced pulque to sell to traders.
Priests had to be brought in for the ritual killings because human
sacrifices had never taken place there, Martinez said.
On hearing of the massacre, Cortes renamed the town Tecuaque -- meaning
"where people were eaten" in the indigenous Nahuatl language -- and
sent an army to wipe out its people.
When they heard the Spanish were coming, the Zultepec Aztecs threw
their victims' possessions down wells, unwittingly preserving buttons
and jewelry for the archaeologists.
The team began work in 1990 and is only now finishing its
investigation. It found remains of domestic animals brought from Spain,
like goats and pigs.
"They hid all the evidence," said Martinez. "Thanks to that act, we
have been allowed to discover a chapter we were
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Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders
By Catherine Bremer
Wed Aug 23
Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured,
ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling
with invading Spanish forces in 1520.
Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site near Mexico City
show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in
ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or
scraped clean, experts say.
Did you have a point? lol
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