Reexamining Human Sacrifice

[j d worthington]

While this may not be entirely new, this new study would seem to put paid to the stereotypical ideas concerning "virgin sacrifice" in the region....

Ancient Maya sacrificed boys not virgin girls: study - Yahoo! News

Title: "Ancient Maya sacrificed boys not virgin girls: study", from Reuters, datelined Wed., Jan. 23, 2008.

 

[brsrkrkomdy]

Well, that's no surprise. If you studied other ancient cultures like with the Druids, the Vikings, the Celts, you'll find these victims of human sacrifices are not always virgin females. And they don't always sacrifice their own people but other prisoners from other tribes. So, this stuff about virgin sacrifices are usually stuff that pulp fictions are made from.

 

[j d worthington]

Well, that's no surprise. If you studied other ancient cultures like with the Druids, the Vikings, the Celts, you'll find these victims of human sacrifices are not always virgin females. And they don't always sacrifice their own people but other prisoners from other tribes. So, this stuff about virgin sacrifices are usually stuff that pulp fictions are made from.

Yup. Those... and Saturday morning adventure serials..... It is, though, still a popular view even today....

 

[chrispenycate]

But that makes it so much less inspiring to charge in on the rescue mission- not that females from 3- 11 are that spectacular, either.
Mind you, they were probably virgin boys…

 

[Lith]

What next? The idea that they didn't throw them into volcanoes?

(Speaking of which, how do we find archaeological evidence of volcano sacrifices?)