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Jiang traces secret societies, blood oaths, factional politics, religious dispute, and human sacrifice back to the beginning of settled human society.
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Human Sacrifice
Jiang traces secret societies, blood oaths, factional politics, religious dispute, and human sacrifice back to the beginning of settled human society.
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Human sacrifice in war energizes one's own people, terrorizes enemies, and breaks a taboo so the community cannot compromise or return to the past.
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The Aztecs are compared to Romans because both are war-centered societies that build civilization around conquest, discipline, sacrifice, and expansion.
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For Jiang, Aztec human sacrifice functions as political terror: it terrorizes enemies, unites the people, and maintains a war society's religious order.
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Jiang argues that Roman triumphal strangulation was also human sacrifice, even if Romans denied it in order to claim greater civilization.
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The heroic twins myth is used to explain why heart extraction and human sacrifice are not incidental cruelty but ritual enactments of sacred mythology.
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"...said they often settle this uh dispute or debate is for human sacrifice okay so if your faction lost you'd all be sacrificed and..."
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"...Aztecs were famous for doing it. So, why would you do human sacrifice if you're engaged in war, okay? Well, there are different reasons...."
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"You can only move forward, okay? So the taboo they broke in the French Revolution is they killed the king and queen of France...."
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"And they're very similar to the Romans. So if you think Aztec, think Romans as well. The main similarity is that both the Aztecs..."
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"So the Aztecs were known for the most grotesque forms of human sacrifice. They would sacrifice 1,000 people at once. They would also sacrifice..."
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"...they would be strangled to death in front of Jupiter. That's human sacrifice, okay? That's like having human sacrifice. There's no other word for..."
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"So Mexico City, if you have a chance to visit there, it is actually on the site of Teno -Teclen, which is a city..."
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"say hey look at us we can play this game where we can't cure ourselves we cut our heart and we come back alive..."
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"dead then this one death next they grab seven death but they didn't revive them thus the Zabavans took their heels when they saw..."
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"...Even today, we still worship Rome. The Aztecs were known for human sacrifice. Didn't matter. They still became the empire of Mexico. The British...."
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"...sacrifice, okay? Jesus came to teach us like, I don't sacrifice. Human sacrifice, it's all evil, okay? He got rid of that. But again,..."
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"So before they went to war, they practiced human sacrifice. They would commit mass murder of their enemies in public. So the Aztecs were..."
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