Okay Aztec ritulistic killings leave a little to be desired:
"the priest suddenly lowered the arrow and jabbed it with all his strenght upward, twisting it, int the lbue man's genital organs. The victim, however, much he might have thought he desired that release from life, gave a scream. He howled a scream, he ululated a scream that overrode the sound of flutes, drum and changting. He screamed, but he did not scream for long.
The priest, with the bloody arrow, drew a corss on the man's chest for a target, and all the prieensts pranced about him in a circle, each carrying a bow and many arrows. As each passed in front of the xochimiqui, he trummed an arrow into the man's heaving breast. When the pra ncing was done and the arrows used up, the dead man looked like an overgown specimen of the animal we call the prickly little boar."
Okay, the Aztecs were brutal cruel.
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