Thursday, September 20, 2012

Human Sacrifices in Old Religion


Human sacrifices are no longer needed in religion this 20th century. Before, there are human sacrifices to please God. They believe in war-God. It is during the civilization of the Aztecs which human sacrifices began and their religion is barbarous at that time.

More than fifteen thousand enemy prisoners died because of human sacrifices and this is the largest human sacrifices ceremonies they done. During ceremonial, one by one, the enemy prisoners are killed by cutting the chests and taking their heart to offer to a war-God.  After that, people would eat human flesh in ritual while celebrating the feasts. It portrays that time that they are carnivorous. All this ceremonial took place in capital city of Tenochtitlan. It is built on island surrounded by lake. The belief system about the concept of God changed when Spanish conquered the land. Now, the present-day is Mexico.

There are many reasons why some other countries conquer the land. It is either they want natural resources or they want to spread religion. There some part of the history who do human sacrifices because of belief about God in past. Still, there are advantages even though conquering the land is not quite good. It is a big help for a country to change society and to change beliefs about the concept of God by conquering the land with the help of those people in other countries.