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#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny

The Martyr Made Podcast

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Mashika's Justice

The poor are given scant attention in the sources as we have them. Most offenders against montezuma's laws died most publicly with the market place, where adulterers were stoned or strangled. Acceptance or rejection by a superior of a claim to dependence could be a matter of life and death. The mashika even had a word for the business of hanging around the edges of feasts, waiting for hand outs,. desperate to suck up a little of the sweetness. They called it horneting, or bumblebe. Some miserable would be bumblebees, pressing themselves forward, desperate for recognition, were left neglected, ignored and humiliated until they despaired and went on to

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