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Date: April 02, 2018 at 20:20:42
From: Karin, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Trauma is the root cause of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate |
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http://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/trauma-is-the-root-cause-of-addiction-according-to-dr-gabor-mate
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Date: April 08, 2018 at 18:52:40
From: Just Forum Fan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trauma is the root cause of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate |
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I believe hate/resentments are the biggest cause of addiction, but the surely there are as many causes of it as there are for cancer.
Addiction is an escape mechanism from what is eating us within.
What we each are escaping is different of course, but now I need to consider the many "flavors" of trauma per the causes of it.
We hate many wrongs done to us and those wrongs can be terribly traumatic.
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Date: April 08, 2018 at 10:17:58
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trauma is the root cause of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate |
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i met gabor at a seminar at the local university...he has spent a lot of time in and with the addict community and has formulated his ideas and treatments from that experience...he is a good man who has spent a lot of time contemplating the causes and needs of addicts...
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 13:48:29
From: SoCalCarol, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trauma is the root cause of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate |
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Wow - if that's true, no wonder there are so many addicts, of all types. Who hasn't had shocks in their lifetime?
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Date: April 03, 2018 at 08:33:43
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trauma is the root cause of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate |
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Thank you for this Karin... Here's hoping the life-
saving discoveries needing/waiting to be made along
Wholistic lines will unfold quickly, now, within these
accelerated times...!
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Date: April 03, 2018 at 16:44:32
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Time is moving as it always has... |
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The slow grinding gears of Ragnarok... It only appears
to be moving faster because that Last tooth on the
Wheel has swing into place...
See you in the Wasteland... ;)
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Date: April 03, 2018 at 17:46:23
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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I was just thinking the other day how the latest
generation is called gen Z. Is that prophetic or what
(talking the end of the alphabet then what).
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 18:09:17
From: Jeff/Lake Almanor,CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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Hi Sue,
We are forbidden to remember our past, while we are alive.
If we knew our past, God would not have a new experience.
We are here in the first place, for God to experience the physical.
Because if we did, it would change our behaviors and beliefs.
And our lives would be meaningless.
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Date: April 14, 2018 at 14:11:47
From: Dan , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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"We are forbidden to remember our past, while we are alive"
No we are not. Judaism taught Gilgul Neshamot - Reincarnation of Souls. Original Christianity taught reincarnation. Esoteric versions undoubtedly taught how to remember past lives. Many passages refer to reincarnation including one that intimates the Jesus and Melchizedek were the same soul according to Paul.
Past live can not only give us insight to our life's purpose in this life, but they can give us invaluable insight as to our strengths and weaknesses.
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Date: April 08, 2018 at 15:19:22
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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I do think we are here at least in part to experience
the physical.People tend to experience the same
destructive behavior over and over even in one
lifetime. Knowing its destructive rarely changes
anything sad to say.
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Date: April 08, 2018 at 18:40:30
From: Jeff/Lake Almanor,CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: I'm just glad we are all different in some way |
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We wouldn't want God to be Bored, now would we...
Hope your doing well Sue....
Think of you daily, while watching the markets. Just keep your head up.
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Date: April 14, 2018 at 14:23:14
From: Dan , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I'm just glad we are all different in some way |
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"We wouldn't want God to be Bored"
God is not bored. God has no ability to be bored. God simply is. He does not want us to do things. He does not punish us. He does not reward us. It is all about our own karma, the way our spiritual vibration reacts with the universe. The Bible personifies those karmic laws as "God's Will" or God's actions. But that is only the way that God designed the Universe. Of Himself God does nothing. He simply exists.
I just wanted to point that out.
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Date: April 15, 2018 at 15:01:44
From: Harvey, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I'm just glad we are all different in some way |
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Date: April 07, 2018 at 06:23:18
From: chatillion, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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I don't think we're forbidden to know of our pasts.
I recall parts of at least six of mine. Each one sheds some light on my present incarnation as to relationships and worldview.
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 23:01:57
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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Date: April 07, 2018 at 16:25:05
From: Jeff/Lake Almanor,CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: I am, and, a piece of God |
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I'm here to experience for him. He can not, as he is only the energy that
creates.
Without Us, He can not.
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Date: April 07, 2018 at 17:48:58
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I am, and, a piece of God |
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I don't know your God Jeff.
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Date: April 07, 2018 at 17:53:07
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I am, and, a piece of God |
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I mean god.
I do know my heavenly Father and he is the one whom created and
he has the mother (matter) ...God does not need us we need God
we are not the Creator but the created. That is my God, My Parent,
My Creator. I choose to know My Parent...I don't know whom
yours is but it is not the same and as RIG shares there are "gods"
and thus that is also written. It is why I test the spirits and walk
the walk on the narrow road.
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 20:41:46
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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better to just consider them meaningless and work from there...
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 19:13:18
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Forbidden Shmidden... |
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I remember much of my "past", although I tend to think
the word Existence is a better fit...
But I am curious how you think remembering our past
would change our behaviors and beliefs, and how exactly
would it make our lives meaningless?
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Date: April 07, 2018 at 15:43:58
From: JimW, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Thank God for remembering my past which.... |
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which is responsible for my personal growth.
I NEVER want to forget the night spent in the
drunk tank in Palm Springs in 1963
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Date: April 07, 2018 at 17:26:02
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Two dimensional thinking, go a step further...(NT) |
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Date: April 08, 2018 at 11:10:07
From: JimW, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Multi-dimensional experiencing of life and personal growth(NT) |
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 20:40:56
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Forbidden Shmidden... |
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if you could really remember yourself then you would already know the answer...
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Date: April 14, 2018 at 14:25:34
From: Dan , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Forbidden Shmidden... |
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Date: April 03, 2018 at 17:59:18
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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Then the Cycle starts over...
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Date: April 04, 2018 at 13:18:06
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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So is it this "Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it" or something more. The Mayan
calendar ended but the world didn't. I think its more
of a loop we are in with no set beginning or end.
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Date: April 04, 2018 at 14:09:50
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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Did the Mayan Calendar end?... Or did it start over?...
The Mayans were counting the Cycles, beginnings,
endings, and starting overs... Strictly my opinion on
what I've researched of course...
But yes, much more than just that...
And really, Loop works just as well, but if you look to
Mother Nature as a hint with Seasons, then I think it's
pretty easy to judge we're in the End Cycle, with who
knows how long of a Winter, to be followed by a new
Spring... Sometime in the future, who knows maybe long
after our bones turn to dust...
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 18:04:04
From: chaskuchar@nebr, [DNS_Address]
Subject: i believe in a new heaven and new earth. |
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don't know how long it takes to get there but we will someday. chas
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Date: May 01, 2018 at 05:14:19
From: grow thyself Charles, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i believe in a new heaven and new earth. |
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Heaven always has been Charles.. you do not comprehend it. The new
earth is the REMODELED earth created by people become knowing of their
inner divine spirit.
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Date: May 01, 2018 at 10:09:39
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i believe in a new heaven and new earth. |
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I often find it odd that some persons who claim to channel Jesus or the Father/Mother go into the KJV of English language usage. First thing I did when I began to study/read bible was knock out the old KJV of thee's, thous and thyself, thou arts, etc. Jesus/Yeshua/Issa/Isu, etc, never used the verbage.
I understood exactly what Charles was commenting on. And he was not saying heaven will get here one of these days... per se. but that he does believe in a new heaven and a new earth. He did not write that heaven has not always been.... he knows his Mary went to heaven. His Mary was/is his wife who passed on short time ago.
I think he recognizes his own inner divine spirit as he understands it. No matter what bible teachers or the RCC teaches or even channelers claim.
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 00:32:31
From: Terra11, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i believe in a new heaven and new earth.ME TOO CHARLES(NT) |
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 18:38:01
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i believe in a new heaven and new earth. |
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it's up to us to make it...
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 09:57:39
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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I am referring to "loop" in a computer type which is
a little different.
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certain condition is reached. Typically, a certain
process is done, such as getting an item of data and
changing it, and then some condition is checked such
as whether a counter has reached a prescribed
number. If it hasn't, the next instruction in the
sequence is an instruction to return to the first
instruction in the sequence and repeat the sequence.
If the condition has been reached, the next
instruction "falls through" to the next sequential
instruction or branches outside the loop. A loop is
a fundamental programming idea that is commonly used
in writing programs.
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 10:53:20
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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Sorry. only meant to copy half of that
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Date: April 04, 2018 at 15:55:54
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: And at some point... |
URL: http://waysofcouncil.net/circles-spirals/ |
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...circular cycles take flight into the spiral momentum
of regeneration...
(IMHO of course...)
Article says it better...
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 05:40:31
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: And at some point... |
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As I have said on this board many Times before on this
and or similar topics... Even in discussions with
you... ;)
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 07:29:34
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: And at some point... |
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...sometimes the point gets unavoidably lost in
translation... lol...
I'd bet the rent you and I are operating from very
different understandings about what spiral energy
represents, as differentiated from circularly
cyclical...
Which of course would be no surprise... Operating from
different understandings is just fine, RIG; no need to
frame or push either one of our perspectives as
superior over the other... ;)
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 13:58:46
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Then why are you?... ;)(NT) |
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 14:05:32
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: lol RIG... ;) n/t |
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Date: April 04, 2018 at 14:15:33
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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The Mayans were counting the human corpses for din din.
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 13:53:38
From: SoCalCarol, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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Eve -
Now that's funny. Those Mayans - they did like to sacrifice people, but I just saw an Ancient Aliens that said the Mayans were told to sacrifice to the gods that landed and ran their show all those maybe 1,000's of years ago. ET made his appearance known and was quite ugly and may have needed the blood? The Mayans did not dream that crap up! they were told.
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 14:37:55
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
URL: http://www.ghosttheory.com/2014/05/28/south-atlantic-anomaly-the-bermuda-triangle-of-space |
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Interesting.
I have wondered if the South Atlantic Anomaly is a way they come
and go ...like a wormhole maybe.
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 14:27:30
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: My understanding agrees with you... |
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...SoCalCarol, that human sacrifice by the Mayans was a
result of ET-overshadowing; not at all within their
original indigenous culture... ;) ...and yes, very much
related to the *energy* they derive not only from human
blood, itself, but from the terror generated by the
practice...
Not up for going into details but, yes, IMHO a very
important understanding... ;)
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 10:03:01
From: SoCalCarol, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: My understanding agrees with you... |
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Yep! That's my understanding too. I've read more and more about all of it, watched the History channel with all the new information they've uncovered in ruins all over the planet. they've said more often that there are good and bad ET's. I'm inclined to consider it.
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Date: April 06, 2018 at 15:18:06
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: My understanding agrees with you... |
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The good ones are from the above and the bad ones are from the
below...This place is the middle.
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 14:56:32
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: My understanding agrees with you... |
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sacrifice works...but there are better ways...
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 15:13:44
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Wull... |
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...yeah! lol
...will get back w/this tomorrow... ;->
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 05:35:35
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Is that Christian based Dogmatic Propaganda?...(NT) |
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 13:40:35
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: It's history |
URL: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/news/2011/11/110930-cannibalism-cannibals-mexico-xiximes-human-bones-science/ |
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 13:50:29
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's history |
URL: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/23/news/adfg-sacrifice23 |
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Brutality of Aztecs, Mayas Corroborated
Scholars had doubted Spaniards' tales of human sacrifice. But new evidence shows that it happened, and that it was purposely painful.
January 23, 2005|Mark Stevenson | Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as
the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive?
In recent years archeologists have uncovered mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
Using high-tech forensic tools, archeologists are proving that pre-Hispanic sacrifices often involved children and a broad array of intentionally
brutal killing methods.
For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased to denigrate Indian cultures. Others
argued that sacrifices were largely confined to captured warriors. Still others conceded the Aztecs were bloody, but believed the Maya were less
so.
"We now have the physical evidence to corroborate the written and pictorial record," said archeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan. "Some 'pro-Indian'
currents had always denied this had happened. They said the texts must be lying."
The Spaniards probably did exaggerate the number of victims to justify their war against idolatry, said David Carrasco, a Harvard Divinity School
expert on Mesoamerican religion.
But there is less doubt about the nature of the killings. Indian pictorial texts known as "codices," as well as Spanish accounts of the time, quote
Indians as describing multiple forms of brutal human sacrifice.
Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced, stoned, crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from
the tops of temples.
Children were said to be frequent victims, in part because they were considered pure and unspoiled.
"Many people said, 'We can't trust these codices because the Spaniards were describing all these horrible things,' which in the long run we are
confirming," said Carmen Pijoan, a forensic anthropologist who found some of the first direct evidence of cannibalism in a pre-Aztec culture
more than a decade ago: bones with butcher-like cut marks.
In December, at an excavation in an Aztec-era community in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City, archeologist Nadia Velez Saldana described
finding evidence of human sacrifice associated with the god of death.
"The sacrifice involved burning or partially burning victims," Velez Saldana said. "We found a burial pit with the skeletal remains of four children
who were partially burned, and the remains of four other children that were completely carbonized."
Although the remains don't show whether the victims were burned alive, there are depictions of people -- apparently alive -- being held down
as they were burned.
The dig turned up other clues to support descriptions of sacrifices in the Magliabecchi codex, a pictorial account painted between 1600 and
1650 that includes human body parts stuffed into cooking dishes, and people sitting around eating, as the god of death looks on.
"We have found cooking dishes just like that," said archeologist Luis Manuel Gamboa. "And, next to some full skeletons, we found some
incomplete, segmented human bones." Researchers don't know if those remains were cannibalized.
In 2002, government archeologist Juan Alberto Roman Berrelleza announced the results of forensic testing on the bones of 42 children, mostly
boys around age 6, sacrificed at Mexico City's Templo Mayor, the Aztecs' main religious site, during a drought.
All shared one feature: serious cavities, abscesses or bone infections painful enough to make them cry.
"It was considered a good omen if they cried a lot at the time of sacrifice," which was probably done by slitting their throats, Roman Berrelleza
said.
The Maya, whose culture peaked farther east about 400 years before the Aztecs founded Mexico City in 1325, had a similar taste
for sacrifice, Harvard University anthropologist David Stuart wrote in a 2003 article.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, "The first researchers tried to make a distinction between the 'peaceful' Maya and the 'brutal' cultures of
central Mexico," Stuart wrote. "They even tried to say human sacrifice was rare among the Maya."
But in carvings and mural paintings, he said, "we have now found more and greater similarities between the Aztecs and Mayas," including a Maya
ceremony in which a costumed priest is shown pulling the entrails from a bound and apparently living sacrificial victim.
Some Spanish-era texts have yet to be corroborated with physical remains. They describe Aztec priests sacrificing children and adults by sealing
them in caves or drowning them. But the assumption now is that the texts appear trustworthy, said Lopez Lujan, who also works at the Templo
Mayor site.
For Lopez Lujan, confirmation has come in the form of advanced chemical tests on the stucco floors of Aztec temples, which were found to have
been soaked with iron, albumen and genetic material consistent with human blood.
"It's now a question of quantity," said Lopez Lujan, who thinks the Spaniards -- and Indian picture-book scribes working under their control --
exaggerated the number of sacrifice victims, claiming in one case that 80,400 people were sacrificed at a temple inauguration in 1487.
"We're not finding anywhere near that ... even if we added some zeros," Lopez Lujan said.
Researchers have largely discarded the old theory that sacrifice and cannibalism were motivated by a protein shortage in the Aztec diet,
although some still believe it may have been a method of population control.
Pre-Hispanic cultures believed the world would end if the sacrifices were not performed. Sacrificial victims, meanwhile, were often treated as
gods before being killed.
"It is really very difficult for us to conceive," Pijoan said of the sacrifices. "It was almost an honor for them."
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 14:05:05
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: I'm not arguing any of that... But that history isn't what... |
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 14:17:17
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I'm not arguing any of that... But that history isn't what... |
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Given their food of choice it might have been about their next big
meal.
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 17:01:52
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: You mean chocolate?...(NT) |
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Date: April 05, 2018 at 17:16:27
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: no |
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Date: April 03, 2018 at 17:23:41
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Time is moving as it always has... |
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As you please sir...but no, you will not see me there.
Happy Trails into your own chosen destiny... ;->
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Date: April 03, 2018 at 17:58:05
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Lol... ;)(NT) |
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