Aztec society unique as opposed to other societies that have practiced human sacrifice. They not only sacrificed humans which they did basically every day estimates usually averaged out to about 12 people a day but they also sacrificed a shit-time animals and they had an entire calendar if you want to think about it like in terms of maybe I guess like Catholic feast days might actually be like a pretty close comparison. There was a one this one ritual that's literally just like theater like it's just like performance art where they're like demonstrating it's like a disturbing Sunday school life so what they're like trying to teach the public something about the gods by killing a woman and like wearing her skin like Buffalo Billlike these

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