This was drawn by an Aztec shaman (witch doctor) in the 1500s, depicting one of the White Gods (one of the white men) who came to the primitive Aztec savages as a teacher.
The white man is having his beating heart cut out of his bleeding body by an Aztec shaman.
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Nothing has changed since then!
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Nothing has changed since then!
Except the fact that Aztecs don't exist any more, and it's probably been a long time since someone had their heart cut out of their chest.
The Spanish came to the Aztecs as teachers?! BWAHAHA! History Fail!
They came to the New World seeking Gold, Glory, and God. Education wasn't part of the plan.
If you mean white men thinking that everyone who doesn't look, think and act like them is a savage, yeah, nothing has changed. The only "education" the Spanish tried to give the Aztecs was forcible conversion to Christianity.
Nothing has changed since then? Are you meaning to tell me that there are human sacrifices happening right now in Mexico?
If so, how come you've told no one until posting this? I'm sure that human sacrificing is illegal in Mexico, so the local governments would have done something about it.
Except that there are no White Gods, Witch doctors, or white men in the picture.
For those who say that the Aztecs don't exist anymore, well, technically, you'd be wrong. The Nahuatl tribes in Mexico are the last descendants of the Aztecs. But, if you're referring to the Aztec civilization, then yes, it doesn't exist anymore.
And note to Poor Richard, the Nahua(tl) don't practice human sacrifice anymore. Neither do Mexicans as a whole. And the white explorers had no interest in educating the Aztecs; they only cared about converting them to Christianity, killing them, and taking their gold. FAIL.
IIRC for the most part, human sacrifice had been abolished before the Spanish settlers came around. The Emperor associated with Quetzalcoatl (They tended to interchange Gods and Emperors as the Egyptians did) was very much against human sacrifice. And the people who WERE sacrificed to the gods were held in extremely high esteem - it was a huge honour, and not one they'd give an outsider or an enemy.
Aztects didn´t have any shamans(they had priests) but they did have copists and painters who painted those things before the white Spanish guys arrived and didn´t bother to think that, whims of destiny, a redneck idiot would interpret it in a fairly freely way 500 years later.
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