• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
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    These are offerings to deities in their own right. Modern societies miss day-to-day rites that connect people with the supernatural

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      Like carving out the still beating hearts of captives with athames and kicking their corpses down the stairs of step pyramids.

      We truly have lost our sense of spirituality.

      • Spaniard@lemmy.world
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        Not all natives were the Aztecs. Even for Christians the whole Santa thing is a bit weird.