Luke Caverns
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
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That's one of our favorite forms of architecture. And it came, it's like the first form of architecture that came straight out of their world where there are,
chiseling in the things they're seeing in their natural world into stone and we all think that that's the most elegant and probably always will and it's kind of the same thing in Mesoamerica some of that architecture is so beautiful because they're taking their natural world and just you know painting it onto stone not physically painting it but they're etching it into the stone and it's just a natural evolution out of their world and it's like
ever since then it has just kind of gone downhill and as far as elegance and beauty you know at least my opinion no yeah i think it's the trend is functionality right now which does make me sad i do love the ancient stuff yeah i mean washington dc is tons you know it's greek roman and egyptian architecture and we love it and it's symbols of ancient authority and power yeah
And it's the first thing that emerges, right? So it's kind of like that's the precipice of it because it's human beings connected to what we were kind of supposed to be, right?
I guess it's kind of an admission we're on a decline, isn't it?
I think that was true all over the place. We, you know, outside of Rome were just peasants living in huts.
Um... It was part of their religion. They, unlike their neighbors, decided to follow the war god. That was their patron deity of the Mexica people. And he, at least as they understood it, demanded sacrifice and lots of it. It wasn't... It wasn't people they could just capture. It was a sacrifice in the way we understand that word, that it was something they wanted and gave up.
So it was capturing in battle. They would ritually, instead of kill each other on the field of battle like would happen in Europe... They'd try not to kill them, but wound them enough where they could haul them back to their city and sacrifice them. Both sides were doing it. So there was nobody left on the battlefield. They were either dead or dragged off. Sounds a lot worse. It does sound worse.
But that was somebody who was a proud and dangerous warrior, who was a human of quality that they took out. The other category was children, which is horrible to our eyes. If you're to sacrifice something you really value and care about, and it's the category's people, who's the most austere sacrifice? It's kids.
And, you know, it sounds real barbaric, but I'm pretty sure there's a line in the Christian Bible that – Yahweh asks the same thing out of somebody. He says, sacrifice your son for me. And he's about to do it. Who's that? You know, I'm a terrible Christian. Abraham and Isaac. And then he was like, oh, just kidding. Trickster God.
But, you know, I mean, Christianity also has at least a moment where God says, prove it. And prove it by killing your child. This is a sacrifice you will make to me.
There's also... There's also... This happens in Mesoamerica where maybe not necessarily a child, but a young person, somebody who's maybe highly valuable, maybe part of a dynastic family, maybe not, probably not the prince, but maybe one of the cousins or something. would be chosen, and then he would basically be pampered for an entire year. And he would be taught music and astronomy and science.
And you build this into a very well-rounded person, and maybe say he's 18 years old, he probably gets – I'm just kind of spitballing, but I'm just saying maybe he gets whatever girls he wants. No, he did.
He had a whole harem.
Yeah, so he gets everything that he wants. He gets all the food that he wants, but 365 days he will be sacrificed. And it's basically like fattening the pig, right, for slaughter.
And he has to walk up, no crying, no getting dragged up there. You get chosen as a young man and given every benefit in life and trained where this is a person who is trained for leading us all. But then they walk up. This is an Aztec tradition where that person walks up and willingly sacrifices himself for the community. Self-sacrifices.
Well, you know, they kill him, but he doesn't get dragged to the stone. He walks up and lays down on it.
Will you go into gory detail about how they killed him? Yeah, can you do that?
How specifically? Heart extraction is what they love to do. Is that the only way? There was head chopping off, too, but the Aztecs loved... The Maya actually... didn't do this hard extraction thing as much until they got more influenced by the people of central Mexico. Okay. It's the classic period. You really can't find much in the way of Maya, uh,
sacrificing each other at all, except in the limited context of wars. There's a panel in Bonampak that shows a war and people getting captured, and then back home, there's a head laying on one of the staircases. There's a guy who has his fingernails ripped out, and they're bringing people to be sacrificed. But... Yeah, the Maya were not as bloody as that until the post-classic.
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