SOC250Y1 Lecture : March 7.docx
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The flesh of the victims is ritualistically consumed = aztec. A sacred stew of peppers, tomatoes, human flesh. In consuming the consecrated flesh of the god-impersonators, the. Mexica believed they were in communion with the gods, partaking of their bofu and blood. Sacred mushrooms flesh of the gods . Only the aristocracy was entitled to consume human flesh, which was considered consecrated. Spanish priests regard aztec religion as a satanic inversion of. Receive sarcastic replies: these are the offerings of low and poor men, not nobles. Population strain, from c. 1200 to 1500, growth from roughly. Great famine of 1454 noble children sold out to slavery famine of 1502-04. Guerra florida perhaps beginning to decline by 1500, as struggle for power, aztec brutality mounts. Judaism, christianity, and islam are religions that are historical rather than cosmological. Holy war is a sign of g-d s wrath sin as infidelity to or non- recognition of divine revelation.