Maya Warfare and Sacrifice
The Ancients
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Is There a Traditional Link Between Captivity and Sacrifice?
It is quite interesting if we do a global comparison. If you'd think of something like the colosseum, where you have people, yu know, spectating, and sometimes the gladiators were killed. In meso america, in central America, if it was a deadly game, and you had captives on one side playing another team, and they were expected to lose. The fact of these captives, they were alite figures, and they could potentially die in front of this crowd in the bulga. But battles cyou know, can be, men fighting can be quite brutal. So, ah, i wouldn't rule it out just before we finish, wrapping
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