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> The Stone of the Sun, now understood as a sacrificial altar. Eh? I still thought they couldn't figure out what it was for. Hmmmm... It does say here that m
by jordigh 3y ago
> The Stone of the Sun, now understood as a sacrificial altar.
Eh?
I still thought they couldn't figure out what it was for.
Hmmmm... It does say here that modern archaeologists think it was for sacrifices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_sun_stone#History_of_interpretations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_sun_stone#History_of_int...
As an aside, a pet peeve of mine is when people in pop culture portray the Maya with the Aztec sun stone, or any other such confusion between Mayans and Aztecs. They lived very far apart! It would be like confusing the French with the Czechs!
- schoen 3y agoIn fact, their languages are not known to be genetically related at all, unlike the Slavic and Romance languages, which are distantly related through Proto-Indo-European. So maybe we could say it would be like confusing the French with the Hungarians. :-)
- DiscourseFan 3y agoYes, but just like the Hungarians and the French, these two peoples also lived close together, and were culturally and socially involved with one another, even if they spoke completely unrelated languages. Its the same in India as well, there are about 3 different language families spoken in India, but they largely share the same cultural heritage.
- jordigh 3y agoActually, they lived about the same distance apart as Paris and Budapest. They of course were aware of each other, but for the most part were separate. The Aztec empire did not include the Maya.