Mainstream Media, Academia Sacrifice Even More Credibility in Articles on Mayan Child Victims
Piece offered unquestioned defense of child slaughter: “It was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.”
Archaeologists have uncovered a significant ancient altar in Tikal National Park, Guatemala, believed to have been used for human sacrifices, particularly of children, during the late 4th century CE.
This altar, attributed to the Teotihuacan culture from central Mexico, was found within a residential complex in the heart of the ancient Mayan city of Tikal, a major center of Mayan civilization.
It took experts a year and a half to uncover and analyse the altar before making the announcement, with the site being described as part of an abandoned “city of the gods”.
Archaeologist Lorena Paiz, who led the discovery, said the altar was believed to have been used for sacrifices, “especially of children”.
“The remains of three children not older than four years were found on three sides of the altar,” Paiz revealed.
The altar was found within a Teotihuacan residential complex which typically feature houses with rooms and central altars, according to Paiz.
And while the discovery might add an interesting new dimension to the historical accounts of the region, an academic’s attempt to paint the sacrifice of children as “not violent” and the unquestioning recitation of the explanation for it by mainstream media stirred a great deal of controversy.
Non-violent child sacrifice? This from CBS News and an archeologist after the discovery of an altar for the sacrifice of children in Mexico: "It was a practice; it's not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies." … https://t.co/eboh1tlU1i
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 14, 2025
And while CBS took the brunt of the criticism from social media, the line was parroted in other outlets. For example, here is the exact quote from the Associated Press.
María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, said the discovery confirms “that there has been an interconnection between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like.”
“We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies,” she said.
The detached analysis hit a nerve, and the statement was slammed by many on social media. Mario Nawfal, entrepreneur and host of “The Roundtable Show” on X.com, derided it as a leftist attempt to defend the slaughter as “spiritual”.
Archaeologist María Belén Méndez claims this wasn’t violence at all—just a “connection with celestial bodies.”
This is the modern progressive mindset: romanticize ritual child murder, rewrite barbarism as cultural nuance, and call depravity “divine.”
These are the same people lecturing you about morality, history, and who should run society.
If you ever needed proof the far-left has completely lost its moral compass—this is it.
EXTREME LEFTISTS DEFEND CHILD SACRIFICE AS “SPIRITUAL”—YES, REALLY
3 toddlers under the age of 4 were found buried at a Teotihuacan altar in Guatemala—sacrificed in blood-soaked rituals to ancient gods.
And how does the radical academic left respond? By defending it.… https://t.co/MWtSokpsWy pic.twitter.com/woroLZmlqr
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 14, 2025
It’s a good time for a reminder that the Conquistadors, whose history has been rewritten to make them villains, had a great deal of help from neighboring tribes and peoples who were forced to contribute victims on a regular basis to these celestial abattoirs.
For example, the Tlaxcalans were the most important indigenous allies of Cortés. They were long-standing enemies of the Aztecs, having suffered from years of warfare and Aztec demands for tribute and human sacrifices. After initial battles with the Spanish, the Tlaxcalans decided to ally with Cortés, providing him with thousands of warriors, supplies, and strategic support. Their alliance was pivotal in the siege and eventual fall of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital.
GUATEMALA
A 1,700 year old altar in Guatemala has been uncovered by archaeologists
They found that it was used for human sacrifices, especially those of children under 4
The gruesome discovery shows the evil that was ended by the arrival of Christianity thanks to Spain pic.twitter.com/ObyOYmwLbl
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) April 14, 2025
Returning to the Mayans, it turns out that there is no consensus on how many of its people they “non-violently” sacrificed. Archaeological studies at sites like Chichén Itzá have uncovered dozens to hundreds of sacrificial victims, often children, but these numbers represent accumulations over centuries.
Meanwhile, this Holy Week, this is what the children of Guatemala are doing now.
Holy Week in Guatemala
with children joining the procession
It’s incredible how traditions can vary so much around the world pic.twitter.com/HonX0ZuR32
— Mambo Italiano (@mamboitaliano__) April 14, 2025
One last note, as it is related:
1/ Wherever Christians went, children’s lives got better.
They fought abuse, ended deadly customs, and transformed entire cultures to protect the vulnerable.
Here’s a thread of Christians who changed history by protecting children. And how kids are victimized today.
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— Katy Faust (@Advo_Katy) April 13, 2025
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For Leftists there is apparently not much if any difference between child sacrifice and late term abortion. What a perverse moralitymachine
Leftists tend towards defending the perverse and demonic.
“Who is to say one side is better than the other?”
We see this same nonsense all the time in the terrible fiction they produce.
“ who is to say one is better than the other”….until the one being sacrificed is you or your child, etc.
Every time I hear this complaint, the first thing my mind flies to are some of those terrible “morals” narrated at the very end of Twilight Zone episodes (the Canadian reboot, from 2002). In the context of the bizarre episode you just saw, they seem to barely make sense… and then you snap out of it and realize, “what the hell did he just say?” They’re monstrous.
science is the alter of the left
no matter if it is abortion
global warming or cooling
(depending on time of year)
or whatever else the come up with.
No, because they abuse science just like the abuse religion — distort it to support their own power and fulfill their own desires.
CE? AD, please, if you don’t mind. I refuse to accept the modern change in our dating system.
When they pull the BCE CE garbage there are two things you can do. Clarify that CE means Christian Era or ask what defines the start of the Common Era?
Exactly
“celestial abattoir” perfectly said though maudlin.
Would it have been different if the article had read
“Human sacrifice was part of their religion as it amongst the Phoenicians, Celts, Germanic tribes and other areas of ancient Europe this was not unique to Mesoamerica”
Do we excuse it for any past culture like they are trying to do here?
We don’t excuse them, we recognize their belief systems required sacrifices for lack of knowledge about how the world works. In a word, they were superstitious. They thought what they were doing was necessary for their survival.
My thoughts exactly.
Human sacrifice is of course violence and disgusting but it should be put into context.
Dave did a great job in showing what my thoughts on the topic are.
It wasn’t what the article was about, and your feeble “whataboutism” is typically and completely off the subject.
And if the article *had* referenced European child sacrifice in eons past, no one here or in any conservative Christian group would have defended it, probably including you pagan leftists, because whipipo bad..
The left is very openly pro-violence. Doesn’t Planned Parenthood HQ have a statue of the Lilith outside? (ancient Jewish lore- I’ve heard- calls her the wife of Satan, a baby eater)
Lillith was just a figure in Jewish entertainment the bible provides no basis for Adam having a wife who isn’t Eve.
The Romans were relatively open-minded on religion, but they absolutely despised cults that involved human sacrifice. One of their complaints against Carthage was their practice of infant sacrifice — an accusation that has been supported by archeology. They unashamedly extinguished the Bacchanals, Ba’alism, and Druidism for practicing human sacrifice.
Seems a saner model than excusing ritual murder.
Exactly but there was no equivalent of the Roman Empire shutting down human sacrifice in Mesoamerica prior to Cortez.
Explanation isn’t excusing but Mesoamerica just continued a superstition that was rightly stamped out in Europe because it didn’t understand how the world worked.
Media and Academics: Child sacrifice in Guatemala – sure no problem let’s
value cultural differences and all that
Also Media and Academics: Slavery in America – worst crime ever perpetuated by (white) man on (black) man staining entire country forever and requiring massive reparations and forced equality of outcome.
Gee, may be both can be considered bad in our current time and leave it at that don’t you think?
Weird how I am currently reading the chapter in VDH’s “The End Of Everything” about Hernan Cortes’ annihilation of the Aztec Empire. The child sacrifice upset him but what really disgusted him was what they did to captured Spaniards. “Plunging a knife into their chest, ripping their beating hearts out, and cooking their bodies with maize and offered to guests invited to the sacrificial feast”.
Cahokia, a major Mississippian culture near St Louis Mo, flourished around 1400 AD.
Cahokia people practiced human sacrifice. Excavations in 1967 uncovered a mass burial in Mound 72. Around 280 skeletons were uncovered. Around 80% of the bodies were young women. They were placed in neat rows and were likely killed by strangulation or blood-letting.
In a separate pit, there are around 40 men and women bodies. They were killed by violent means, including decapitation.
This is now called the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex but was formerly called the Southern Death Cult.
Archaeologist have also found that the native Americans who lived in Chaco Canyon NM around 850-1100 AD were cannibals.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8372934/
Their AI god will be MOLOCH…
Method Of Lessening Our Children’s Harm…and they will carry his will with their interpretation of love.
Witness the adoration by the left of one kid that took the life of another.
View the adulation for Mangione and Dzokhar before.
They sure need a heavy dose of their form of Democracy and we laugh at the bitter face from the taste.
Pardon me, Maria, would you please stand still while I test my knife?
This isn’t violence, you understand — I’m a metallurgist.
“Mostly peaceful child sacrifices”
You beat me to it.
I’ve toured several sights in Belize and Guatemala. The guides were carefully neutral on all of it just describing what were were looking at and what it was used for. To call sacrifice of any kind non violent is very odd. Strapping someone to a stone alter, killing them with a knife and cutting out the heart is violent no way around it. You can argue with the why of it and it is still argued but to try and play it off is bizarre.
Burning women alive at the stake because some people thought they were “witches” occurred in America. We hung black people without a trial in the South based on mere allegations. So don’t be too quick to judge.
Yup. The difference is, we don’t even attempt to argue that those things were right, or even neutral.
I’ll judge. Murdering children is bad. Burning people at the stake is also bad.
“Burning women alive at the stake because some people thought they were “witches” occurred in America. ”
No. In the US, they were hung. One was pressed. No witches were burned in the US.
The Burning was in Europe.
“We hung people without a trial in the South based on mere allegations.”
Fixed that for you. Whites as well as blacks were victims of lynching–and more whites than blacks were lynched.
Non violent’ used to describe ritual murder/sacrifice seems odd. To be fair though the last X post claiming the arrival of Christianity was synonymous with improved lives of Children is an interesting claim. Sure over long periods of time and certainly so in the 21st century. No question life is better today.
However it wasn’t as if the Spanish had such a touchy/feely bloodless conquest in the ‘New World’ creating a utopia that the survivors gleefully went to mining silver for them. Peonage was an evil reality for centuries. Lots of abuses remained into the 20th century by those using perverse versions of ‘Christian’ religion as an excuse to impose all sorts of evils and to assert control.
I was on a tour many decades ago in Mexico City and went to the major cathedral. We were told that the peasants used to crawl on their hands and knees across a large plaza to give a piece of silver to the church.
Was it explained whether they wanted to or was it b/c they were made to do so to reinforce strict social hierarchy in part based on the very specific % of ‘blood’ ?
No one, with any sense anyway, is gonna argue that 21st century modernity even in that of 2nd world Nations like Mexico is somehow not preferable to pre Columbian life. The issue is the period of time in between then and now. Lots of less than savory actions on the part of the Spanish gov’t and Catholic Church to advance their own power and wealth in the new world at others expense.
We shouldn’t minimize or gloss over that history. Nor should we engage in inaccurate romanticism about the people and cultures present in pre Columbian new world. Instead we.should, IMO, attempt to view unfiltered history as it was in an unemotional, open minded way and avoid trying to find ways to advance any particular ideological narrative. All of it; the good, the bad and the ugly.
I’d have a similar reply to both you and Danny above.
I believe that both Judaism and Christianity teach that humans are made in the image of God. This stands in pretty stark contrast to a religion that demands human sacrifices to obtain divine favor. There was no ‘advancement’ that generated this thought but it was a significant difference in perspective on human life.
I certainly agree that the belief took a long time to evolve into our current understanding but the foundation was set and likely did have an impact on how the Spanish viewed the Aztec practices.
To people who believed child sacrifice defended the community from drought, crop failure, diseases, invaders, etc., it was a perfectly moral necessity. Today we know better. They did not. Thank science that has largely replaced god(s) with knowledge. We no longer react to disasters and the potential for disaster the way they did, for their lack of understanding the natural world. Science has advanced our morality by allowing us to recognize the futility of such acts as sacrifices. Sacrifices are immoral now because our understanding of nature rules against their utility.
We still sacrifice the unborn for our various reasons. Satan maintains a robust presence in our society. Do you serve him?
You just can’t hate the MSM enough.
As one of the great mistresses of ethics and philosophy of our times said, “It was rape, but it wasn’t rape rape.”
“Wherever Christians went, children’s lives got better.
They fought abuse, ended deadly customs, and transformed entire cultures to protect the vulnerable.”
This article ends with a couple of true statements. There have also been horrific atrocities committed by some that called themselves Christians, but that was a false claim. True Christians have always been a blessing to society. That is who we are called to be.
These are the same evil, leftist/Dhimmi-crat reprobates who rationalize, excuse and whitewash genocidal Islamfascism, terrorism and “holy war” practiced by certain goose-stepping, belligerent Muslims against Jews, Christians, Hindus and other non-Muslims as representing the understandable by-product of alleged Muslim grievance and victimhood.
We no longer sacrifice children so that the drought will end, or to win a victory in war, or to keep the forces of darkness at bay.
No.
Today we sacrifice children so that mom can go drinking with her friends next weekend, or so she doesn’t lose her figure or have to take time off from her career..
And we do so in numbers that would astound the Aztec and Maya. Every day.
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