Mexican Cartels just carrying on the tradition

[crash_davis 23113]

Cartels beheading people and shit. Nothing new, been going on since AD900. They are just continuing a tradition.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/mexico-skulls-guatemala-boder

copy and pasted highlights below.

 

When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital.

It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between AD 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.

The police investigator’s suspicions in 2012 were not unreasonable; the border area around the town of Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed through each side of every skull, and were usually found in ceremonial plazas, not caves.

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[Samson's Wig 3192]

A decade of tests.  Huh.

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[Pato del Muerto 52510]

 

[Trey3216 15347]

2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

 

One of the greatest individual music performances ever in my opinion is this one.   Just flat out badass.  

[Helobious 9455]

Didn’t know the guillotine was invented in the americas. Chopping heads off was the thing back in the day. Not the cartels/ISIS fault everyone else got soft.

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Are you trying to spread disinformation that "native" Americans were not all irenic? fucking racist. White men that believed they were men did this!

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[bluto 4932]

Russians gonna pull this card on Ukrainian mass graves

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Time for a narcocorrido remix of Hank Jr. 

  

 

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18 hours ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Are you trying to spread disinformation that "native" Americans were not all irenic? fucking racist. White men that believed they were men did this!

Cool thy jets, jackass.

[phdhorn 6224]

Meh.

Aztecs and other pre-Columbian civilizations played Ulama (world's oldest game probably).  Look it up.  While it's a myth that teams played with skulls used as a "ball", they often decorated their courts with dozens of skulls.  And often the team that won was decapitated - pre-Columbian tribes considered it an honor to die as the game was far more symbolic than just a game.  Never mind the human sacrifices surrounding the games.  And every major Mesoamerican town/city had a ball court for Ulama.  But maybe the most impressive thing surrounding these sports are the tzompantli ). These had a base with upright wood posts.  Tens of thousands of human skulls were displayed on these "racks"; one Conquistador reported as many as 136,000, but even if this is doubted, scientists found one with a definite head count (see what I did there?  yuk yuk yuk) of over 60,000.  Almost all of these skulls were human sacrifice; others were decapitated "winners" of the ball games displayed as sort of the statue outside the stadium thing... a tribute of sorts.

Among the most brutal worlds I know of is pre-Columbian America.  Death was not only commonplace, but sought after in many activities.

A pile of a measly 150 skulls is more of an afterthought than anything significant in that world.

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my brother is an archeologist based out of central america and the yucatán.  he has found some cool fucking shit. including the “maize” god.  Locals would take newborns and bound their heads in a way that would make it resemble an ear of corn when older. they would then use these “gods” to reenact their “creation of the world” event in religious ceremonies. 

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On 4/28/2022 at 11:19 PM, Harrison Bergeron said:

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Are you trying to spread disinformation that "native" Americans were not all irenic? fucking racist. White men that believed they were men did this!

look at this bitch lol

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On 4/28/2022 at 11:19 PM, Harrison Bergeron said:

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Are you trying to spread disinformation that "native" Americans were not all irenic? fucking racist. White men that believed they were men did this!

Mesoamerican.

 

[Sleep off ugly 279]

I’m guessing your point is execution is a barbaric practice, only done by monstrous folks.

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Japan	3
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