THE HORRORS OF WAR
“AFTER THEY FINALLY SURRENDERED THE TLAXCALANS, TOTONACS, TEXCOCANS AND CHALCA WENT AROUND, PULLING PEOPLE FROM HOLES, CLUBBING THEM TO DEATH AND CANNIBALISING THEIR CORPSES”
When the conquistadors arrived in Tenochtitlan, they discovered a society founded on an institutionalised cult of death. At the Great Temple, prisoners of war, slaves and even children sent from the provinces were sacrificed to delay the death of the fifth and final sun – the sun of the Aztecs. They were strapped to a slab and had their hearts cut out
