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Aztec Death Whistles Have A Terrifying Effect On Listeners’ Brains
In other words, the terrifying ambiguity of the death whistle apparently ignites the imagination as the brain struggles to ...
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Mass child sacrifices in 15th-century Mexico were a desperate attempt to appease rain god and end devastating drought
The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...
Mexico went through extreme drought. The Aztecs sacrificed 42 children to Tlaloc, the god of rain
The remains, mostly boys aged between two and seven years old, were placed inside a box of ashlars in a careful arrangement.
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Centuries-old mass grave of children found in Mexico. They were sacrificed to rain god
What happens when the rain stops? For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in the mid-15th century, a two-year drought ...