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  Ancient Aztec   Religion and Rituals 

 Vaughn Rice

  RLA 289,Semester 4 ,5B 6   keith schoch   june 7 ,2012

 The Aztecs had a knack for cutting out humans hearts while their victim was still alive. This  sacrifice was to satisfy their gods.The meaning of the word Aztec is a person who comes from Aztialn source. Aztlán is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples. The Aztec  empire was in the valley of  Mexico.They left their homeland <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> in 1100 AD and found the valley of Mexico in 1250 AD.The Aztecs had more than 100 <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> gods.They believed that these gods helped them with crops, warfare and everything else in <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> their everyday lives.They also believed that the world would end without these <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> sacrifices..There are three main types of people involved in the aztec rituals. The captive <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> warriors and priests. source Fiona Macdonald <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">

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The role of captives in the rituals were to be sacrificed to gods.The god Tezcatlipoca, represented by a smoking mirror, was one the aztecs most important gods. This god helps each helps warrior in battle. Captives who were sacrificed in the spring had their skin cut off for the god of fertility.The young people among the captives were left to drowned as offerings to the god Tlacloc. Tlaloc was the god of rain water thunder and lightning. There are the main types of people involved in the aztec rituals. The captive warriors and priests The priest's role in the rituals was to sacrifice the captives.These priests had to pick out the sacrifices from the captives. Then they have to perform the dirty deed of cutting out the heart or whatever the ritual required. __http://tinyurl.com/yaj4lrh__ .The priests smell of incense ,sweet smelling substance burned in holy places like temple and blood and rotting flesh.The smell like this because they are in the temple all the time. The Aztecs were a very complicated people. They had a lot of rituals to keep the gods happy and they had a lot of gods.Which meant they had to sacrifice a lot of lives.But most of the sacrifices were not aztecs but people from civilizations around it that had been caught in flowery wars.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> image credits <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1440&bih=785&tbm=isch&tbnid__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__=AIgaofEPHtn0_M:&imgrefurl=http://aztecsociety.yolasite.com/war-and-weapons.php&doc__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__id=UvzrWQ7Zp0QROM&imgu__ <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1440&bih=785&tbm=isch&tbnid=H4Rw__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__nGPsy7nGTM:&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VzMVer1a9c6KqUtKE86__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__8Lw&docid=_2KltKclTGSwlM&itg__

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