xicamatl:xicamatl:HERE IT IS. THE HUMAN SACRIFICEhey guys did you know my ancestors built floating i
xicamatl:xicamatl:HERE IT IS. THE HUMAN SACRIFICEhey guys did you know my ancestors built floating islands and gardens for sustainable farming? yes we were architectural geniuses actually! they were called chinampas and you should look them up THEY’RE GORGEOUSdid you know the mexica empire was one of the first people to implement a system of universal compulsory education? every child was educated regardless of their social statusREMEMBER THE HUMAN SACRIFICESalso did you know that in Tenochtitlan we mastered the art of aqueducts and built a gigantic one called Chapultepec that ran for three miles and poured water into public fountains and reservoirs? Because of the city being interconnected by lakes, we constructed a revolutionary dam, the largest earthwork in the Americas at the time, and it was fitted with doors which could be raised or lowered to control the level of water behind it!! fucking awesomeHOW ABOUT THOSE SACRIFICES THODid you know my ancestors knew how to perform surgeries with anesthesia? Our physicians did all kind of medicinal research and had extensive knowledge of medicinal herbs and plans, for example they used the sap from the maguey tree as a disinfectant and to heal wounds; and argemone mexicana as a painkiller. Research it- it’s amazing!!KIDS DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE SACRIFICEalso what’s hilarious to me is the two white colonizers reacting to it in visceral horror when they were responsible for the genocide of 23 million of our people- 95% of our population…. let that sink inAnd @ all the colonizers trying to debate me on this you can continue to vilify brown cultures who practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice while calling the Greeks “cerebral” and “pinnacles of human society” and they too practiced human sacrificeAnd I will continue reminding you that your (WHITE EUROPEAN) ancestors consumed mummies, and yet why is it that Victorians are not called “savage” and “barbarians?”We’re not debating the ethics of cannibalism and sacrifice, we’re talking about double standards and racismthe histories of sacrifice and cannibalism in indigenous religions are taught through a lens of colonization, racism, and anti-native propaganda to justify the genocide of millions of indigenous peoplemost of the information about the mexica (aztec’s) practice of human sacrifice come from hernán cortés, you know, the man that genocided 95% percent of the mexicaindigenous practices deserve respect and respect does not mean you have to agree with the practice or that they are above reproach but it does mean that you listen to what indigenous people tell you about it. it means you shut the fuck up about the things you don’t know and listenyou need to check your own biases and prejudices because you were likely taught by a non-native person and those biases do shape how you perceive indigenous cultures as less then white cultures and therefore subject those biases onto indigenous peopleit’s why your first knee-jerk reaction to posts like mine will be to call me savage and barbaric when you do not even know the word for cannibalism in my language or that we had a very advanced culture (which was the point of my commentary in the first place)do your research! a 5 minute wikipedia scroll and your AP history textbook does not count as research. seek out resources that are not written from the perspectives of white spaniards or non-native people and maybe you’ll learn somethingIt’s ridiculous that colonizers think that my ancestors were these barbaric savages because of careful ritual practices like okay Cordelia, continue huffing mummy powder and genociding natives in the name of your god pip pip cheerio -- source link