Aztec Human Sacrifice, Codex
by Photo Researchers
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Aztec Human Sacrifice, Codex
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Photo Researchers
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Photograph - Photograph
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Print entitled Aztec priest performing the sacrificial offering of a living human's heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli. Taken from the Codex Magliabechiano. Huitzilopochtli ("Blue Hummingbird on the Left") was the Aztec god of Sun and War. The Aztecs offered human sacrifices (usually prisoners of war) to Huitzilopochtli in order to secure rain, harvests and success in war. The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Aztec codex created during the mid-16th century, in the early Spanish colonial period.
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