Re: Caladran Flower Wars and Maya Cities

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 13:14:45 -0800


At 11:11 PM 1/2/2002 +0200, you wrote:
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...

Yes, this is important.
The best way to explain it that I have found has been usurped as the Shargash motto now, but works for any culture that works this way.

The idea is that "Death Causes Life."



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