The Unspeakable Horrors of Human Sacrifice – And How They Were Ended
Those of Mexican or Peruvian or Bolivian origin and all those nations where the Aztecs and the Incas once lived in South America, should not by any means take offence by this essay. The European nations and the African nations and most other nations before the arrival of Christianity also practiced ritual or mass human sacrifice.
The Celts (from whence came the Irish, the Scots, the Welsh and several other tribes and people) for example, practiced their own brand of ritual human sacrifice, with victims being burned alive, flogged to death or drowned. In areas of the world that correspond to modern day Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Vikings also practiced ritual human sacrifice and as with the Celts, ancient accounts of this barbaric and demonic practice are being corroborated by multiple archeological evidences.
The Aztecs and the Incas have in the last thirty years, become the subject of a curious mix of tourist driven fascination for the ancient ruins; and a neo-pagan desire to embrace the “pre-European” culture of the indigenous people of these nations. Both tourist and neo-pagan alike do not wish to confront the demonic and pervasive reality of human sacrifice in these cultures.
The Aztecs (present day Mexico) ritually sacrificed thousands of human victims (a large proportion of them children) to their “humming bird” god and in each case, the abdomen of the conscious victim would be ripped open, the still beating heart plucked out by the priest and the body then
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