Remember, all cultures and ideological systems are equal and you are a bigot if you think this is barbaric:
The victims of human sacrifice by Mexico's ancient Mayans, who threw children into water-filled caverns, were likely boys and young men not virgin girls as previously believed, archeologists said on Tuesday.
Phew, what a relief.
They only killed little boys instead of little girls. That's totally better.
Maya priests in the city of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula sacrificed children to petition the gods for rain and fertile fields by throwing them into sacred sinkhole caves, known as "cenotes."
The caves served as a source of water for the Mayans and were also thought to be an entrance to the underworld.
So they poisoned their own water with the rotting bodies of their own children.
Yeesh...
He said children were often thrown alive to their watery graves to please the Mayan rain god Chaac. Some of the children were ritually skinned or dismembered before being offered to the gods, he said.
Is it just me, or is it really weird that Reuters is reporting this so matter-of-factly?
"Ah, yes, they cut the skin off little kids, dismembered them, and then chucked them into water pits. Totally normal. It's just their culture, after all."
(The only time lefties get upset about someone else's culture is when it says abortion or gay sex is wrong.)
Well, it's a good thing that we aren't, you know, trying to "decolonize" our education system by bringing back ancient Mesoamerican chants to the gods of human sacrifice.
Oh well, I'm sure our kids will turn out fine. We got prayer and Bibles out of schools, so they'll definitely be enlightened young scholars and not brainwashed cultists.
It is difficult to determine the sex of skeletons before they are fully matured, said de Anda, but he believes cultural evidence from Mayan mythology would suggest the young victims were actually male.
I'm sorry, but that's awfully transphobic, Reuters.
How do you or the archeologists know what gender these children identified as before they were fileted and thrown into a pit??
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