Ric Hajovsky notes how the "peaceful Maya" scholars held to a few decades ago is now a "myth"; there is archaeological proof the Maya had a society based on fear.
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Ric Hajovsky, Blood, Guts, and Gore: The Sacrificial Practices of Mesoamerican Cultures (N.P.: Ric Hajovsky, 2023), 11
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- Ric Hajovsky
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- Ric Hajovsky
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The “Peaceful Maya” Myth
It wasn’t that long ago when the popular literature tended to paint the Maya as a peace-loving and noble culture while pigeonholing the Aztec and Toltec as bloodthirsty warmongers who performed human sacrifices on a nearly daily basis. That misrepresentation of the Maya is not being promoted as it was earlier. We now have archaeological proof that the Maya had a society based on war and the taking of prisoners-of-war for sacrifice ever since their early beginnings. They also sacrificed children and animals and performed self-mutilation to please their gods.
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