
#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny
The Martyr Made Podcast
The Mesoamerican Cultural Story
The aztecs were known by every one to be pretenders. They had descended as tough but uncouth nomads onto a long established civilization. When they embarked upon the course of empire in the fifteenth century, they ordered burned whole libraries of cultural history. Their great achievements in war, architecture and ceremony were tinged with a sense of hubrus,. With ancient gilt over their inadequacy and presumption. The mashika was a general notion of man's tenuous place in the world. Throughout mezo america there was either an abyss on your hand or you could put it into perspective.
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