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I wonder if all these sacrifices were because of a lack of food. Better to give your kid to the gods than to watch them slowly starve to death during a bad win

I wonder if all these sacrifices were because of a lack of food. Better to give your kid to the gods than to watch them slowly starve to death during a bad winter.

ourmandave 4y ago
If this were a bad movie, it would end with the knife falling and then zoom out to show the FEMA trucks only minutes away. Whoopsie!
- peteradio 4y ago
  WTF, thats M'night shamalama from the 90s
- WirelessGigabit 4y ago
  Did you just watch the movie version of The Mist by Stephen King?
newguynewphone 4y ago
"In especially uncertain times, such as when an emperor died, or when volcanoes erupted or severe earthquakes or famine struck, priests sacrificed captured warriors or specially raised, perfectly formed children to the gods." related to the article above https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/04/why-incas-performed-human-sacrifice https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/04/why-incas-pe...