Re: Caladran Flower Wars and Maya Cities

From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:11:02 +0200 (EET)


On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Peter Larsen wrote:

<snip>
> This is going off on a tangent, but: I seem to remember that
> the Pre-Columbian Mexoamericans connected blood with life, not death.
> The purpose of all the blood-letting was not to produce corpses but
> to "grease the wheels" of the world...

I think you are right there. The blood was sacrificed, so that the sun would come up tomorrow too. The logic is like that of the Heortling sacred time. The rites must be made successfully, or the world will end.

        -Adept

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