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  2. Human sacrifice in Aztec culture - Wikipedia

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    Human sacrifice rituals were performed at the appropriate times each month or festival with the appropriate number of living bodies and other goods. These individuals were previously chosen to be sacrificed, as was the case for people embodying the gods themselves, or members of an enemy party which had been captured and prepared to be ...

  3. Tecpatl - Wikipedia

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    Sacrifice of a war captive (Image based on the Codex Magliabechiano) The tecpatl or sacrificial knife, was an important element in Aztec rituals. The tecpatl was used by Aztec priests to open the chest of the victims of human sacrifice to extract the heart that would feed the gods, in the hope that the offerings would bring blessings to mankind ...

  4. Huītzilōpōchtli - Wikipedia

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    The Aztecs performed ritual self-sacrifice (also called autosacrifice or blood-letting) on a daily basis. [17] The Aztecs believed that Huitzilopochtli needed daily nourishment (tlaxcaltiliztli) in the form of human blood and hearts and that they, as “people of the sun,” were required to provide Huitzilopochtli with his sustenance. [18]

  5. Human sacrifice in pre-Columbian cultures - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec religion is one of the most widely documented pre-Hispanic cultures. Diego Durán in the Book of the Gods and Rites wrote about the religious practices devoted to the water gods, Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue, and a very important part of their annual ritual included the sacrifice of infants and young children.

  6. Xipe Totec - Wikipedia

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    Annotated image of Xipe Totec sculpture. In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (/ ˈ ʃ iː p ə ˈ t oʊ t ɛ k /; Classical Nahuatl: Xīpe Totēc [ˈʃiːpe ˈtoteːk(ʷ)]) or Xipetotec [3] ("Our Lord the Flayed One") [4] was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare, the seasons, [5] and the earth. [6]

  7. Ochpaniztli - Wikipedia

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    The harvesting season of war was when the Mexica (better known as the Aztecs) went to war for captives to sacrifice to the gods, who could never have enough human flesh to eat. [4] Toci, "Our Grandmother", was one of the Mexica deities, who may have once been a gentle young Culhua princess promised in marriage to a Mexica prince. [5]

  8. Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals ...

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    Boys were younger than 6 when they were sacrificed. The team behind the new study was able to extract and sequence ancient DNA from 64 out of around 100 individuals, whose remains were found ...

  9. New Fire ceremony - Wikipedia

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    The New Fire Ceremony (Spanish: Ceremonia del Fuego Nuevo) was an Aztec ceremony performed once every 52 years—a full cycle of the Aztec “calendar round”—in order to stave off the end of the world. The calendar round was the combination of the 260-day ritual calendar and the 365-day annual calendar.