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Ominous new interpretation of Aztec sun stone
A new study on one of the most important remaining artifacts from the Aztec Empire, a 24-ton basalt calendar stone, interprets the stone’s central image as the death of the sun god Tonatiuh during an eclipse, an event Aztecs believed would lead to a global apocalypse accompanied by earthquakes. M
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A new study on one of the most important remaining artifacts from the Aztec Empire, a 24-ton basalt calendar stone, interprets the stone’s central image as the death of the sun god Tonatiuh during an eclipse, an event Aztecs believed would lead to a global apocalypse accompanied by earthquakes.
So, much like our own "progressive" politicians, the Aztec government liked to keep its people cowed through frightening apocolyptic predictions. The Aztecs are known as great builders, mathematicians and astronomers, but the overwhelming majority of Aztecs did farm work, living on a pittance while keeping those builders, mathematicians and astronomers well-paid, well-fed, and well supplied with material and labor.
Like other early Mexican societies, the Aztecs relied heavily on agriculture, growing maize, beans and squash to sustain their population. But their dependence on the sun for agriculture was also accompanied by a belief that they had to feed the sun with the blood of human sacrifice to keep it alive.
The Aztecs sacrificed a prisoner on the calendar stone on the date 4 Olin, the day they believed the world would end. The day repeats every 260 days in their calendar cycle. With succession of the cycle, another prisoner was sacrificed and the sun rose again the following day. Tonatiuh lived on.
The priests, high in the Aztec society chain of command, were responsible for charting astronomical phenomena, including the eclipse that would bring impending doom, Milbrath said.
They may have known that no eclipse would come on 4 Olin during the height of the empire. Based on the Aztec calendar system, a solar eclipse would not fall on that date until the 21st century, she said.
You see the genius? Keep the people scared and compliant by predicting an event that they knew would not happen in their lifetimes, nor the lifetime of the empire. That strategy far predates are own global warming alarmists, who always seem to think they are so clever and original.
Unfortunately for the Aztec farm workers, they did not have libraries and published science to research and learn that the wool was being pulled over their eyes. So the astronomer/priests fed the people the information that the goverment wanted them to have, and the government rewarded the priests with wealth and position, and no doubt plenty sacrificial virgins.
Much like the modern day governments funding the IPCC to spread the alarm and fear. All to help the government keep 'em down, keep 'em down! I'll bet modern day progressives would love to sacrifice some of those horrid "deniers" until the rest of us toe the line.
Don't think they'd be much interested in the virgins, though.