What The Blood Sacrifice Of The Maya Can Teach Us About Today

Genital mutilation vs. the mutilation of the planet. What’s more gruesome?

The Maya characters for genital blood-letting, which was the highest kingly sacrifice. From A Forest Of Kings

Mesoamerican civilization is usually characterized as blood-thirsty, which I suppose it technically is. As the late Linda Schele and David Freidel write in A Forest Of Kings,

Now we call this world Mesoamerica…