>>11039304Well too bad you're going to sleep, but maybe you'll see this once you get up, who knows.
The Aztec cosmovision held that the entire Cosmos was created and is sustained by constant sacrifices, and so human sacrifices are also needed to keep the gods happy and the universe in motion. Since humans were the highest of the gods' creations, it makes sense that they'd be the most valuable sacrifice.
But at the end of the day they were still a civilization made up of people who were born, grew up, learned, worked, fought, did trade, grew old and died, just like we do now. They weren't just a tribe of bloodthirsty savages
