Guatemalan archaeologists discovered an ancient Mayan altar that was explicitly used for the sacrifice of children, but the Associated Press was able to find someone to assert the custom.
Altar transport
AP Story, released last week, details the discovery of an altar at Tikal National Park, about 325 miles north of Guatemala. According to the AP, “Tikal's huge city-state, with towering temples still standing in the jungle, fought the Khanru dynasty for centuries to rule the Mayan world.”
That Mayan world extends north to Mexico, where Teotihuacan (one of the world's largest cities at its peak between 100 BC and 750 AD) writes that the AP stands. Near today's Mexico City, Teotihuacan is famous for its solar and moon pyramids, both of which were used for human sacrifices.
The newly discovered altar is about 1 yard x 2 yards x 1 yards in size and is covered in limestone. It was discovered in a residence that features “anthropomorphized figures containing red-tone tassels,” a detail of the Teotihuacan culture. Archaeologists revealed and analyzed the year and a half before the discoveries were announced.
The AP reported:
Edwin Roman, who heads the archaeological project in Southern Tikal within the park, said the discovery indicates that it shows a wide range of sociopolitical and cultural interactions between Tikal Maya and Teotihuacan elites from 300 to 500.
Roman said the discovery reinforced the idea that Tikal was the Cosmopolitan Centre of the time, a place where people visited from other cultures, and confirmed its importance as a centre of cultural convergence.
Led archaeologist Lorena Pais told the Associated Press:
Teotihuacan was a trader (Guatemala) who traveled all over the country. The residential complex in Teotihuacan was a home with rooms and a central altar. It is like the residence where it was discovered, with an altar with an appearance representing the goddess of the storm.
In short, it is an important discovery that provides further historical insight into the Mayans.
Sacrifice tells a lie
It is also an ominous discovery. Paiz told the AP that the altar was “believed to have been thought to have been used especially for the sacrifice of children.”
“The bodies of three children under the age of four were found on three sides of the altar,” she said.
If the AP had left it behind, readers may have left the impression that Mayan religion was evil – perhaps even the devil. However, given the anti-West anti-Christian thinking of the present Left and its allies, such an impression was unbearable. Therefore, the AP looked for someone who would look good at ritual murder of infants.
Maria Belen Mendes, an archaeologist who was not involved in the project, said the discovery “confirms that there is an interconnected connection between both cultures and the relationship between gods and celestial bodies.”
“We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was practice. It wasn't that they were violent, it was a way of connecting with the heavenly bodies,” she said.
Spin Sceptic
Not everyone has bought AP spins on this subject.
“I think that's fine,” Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger said on X.
“It was originally a 'non-violent, peaceful riot' and now it's a 'peaceful child sacrifice',” posted by Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.). “What planet did these people come from?”
Redstate contributor Bonchie called the AP's approach “the perfect example of the so-called “noble, savage” myth at the heart of left-wing ideology.”
Bonchie claimed:
What we need to understand about that type of misrepresentation is that it is essential to support the left-wing doctrine of “colonization” and the supposed evil of capitalism. In that story, these tribes would have blossomed into peaceful utopia without Western intervention. Moreover, they were morally superior to the Spanish invaders despite sacrificing their children to a false god, perpetuating the most brutal slavery in history, and killing each other with reckless abandonment.
If the left loses its framing, their worldview, centered around Western culture, collapses as the only thing that evil can do. (Embodied in the original.)
Children's sacrifices in the 21st century
Incidentally, this is the same left, to the point that abortion actually celebrates the height of self-realization, some progressives actually sacrificing the fetus to modern gods.
Observed lifespan:
Abortion is primarily committed on utilitarian reasons, and has no ritual meaning by abortions or seekers, but its advocates frame it as a necessary sacrifice for women's lifestyle and career options, but its political supporters are even committed to what many people call secular “sacred crament” and even what the Satanic temples call “rit rituals.”
“It's interesting that we sit for human sacrifice and call other ancient civilizations “pagan.”,” the neurosurgeon and future Cabinet Secretary said in 2014.
Perhaps that guilt was led by the AP trying to whitewash the Mayans' truly terrifying religious ritual. If people stop thinking of child sacrifices as evil, they feel that they will not be appointed, or even after, of smelling the innocent life in the womb.
