Later in history people liked to revise Roman’s history. They regularly “ritually strangulated” enemies at the alter of Saturn. There are documented cases where

Later in history people liked to revise Roman’s history. They regularly “ritually strangulated” enemies at the alter of Saturn. There are documented cases where hundreds were strangled / executed by other means. I grant you the Aztecs seemed far more extreme, but it was also core to the Roman belief system.