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#124: March 23, 2008

Knowledge Fight

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What Do You Think? 20 Sacrifices a Minute?

The Aztecs sacrificed thousands of people over four days to christen a temple. They would have played out wars between different aztec cities where the goal was not to kill each other, it was to injure someone and bring them back to be sacrificed. The role of sacrifice of humans in their culture was really fuck and fascinating. But looking at them through solely the prism of our own culture is one way to end up hating other cultures.

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