Every Columbus Day, liberals insist that the story of European colonization is a simple narrative of good versus evil: horrible Europeans came upon innocent Native Americans, introducing slavery, exploitation, and oppression. A massive archaeological discovery blows one of many gaping holes in this narrative. While Europeans did indeed do horrible things, the natives weren’t exactly innocent.
Two hundred and fifty skeletons of children between the ages of 4 and 14 have been unearthed at Huanchaco, Peru, in what experts say is likely the world’s largest child-sacrifice site. Huanchaco is a site of the Chimú culture (1200-1400), a predecessor to the mighty Inca Empire, which also carried out child sacrifices.
‘This is the biggest site where the remains of sacrificed children have been found,” the excavation’s chief archaeologist, Feren Castillo, told AFP in August. “There isn’t another like it anywhere else in the world.”
The Peruvian press agency Andina reported that archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of 250 children and 40 warriors at the site, which is 346 miles north of Peru’s capital of Lima.
The children were reportedly sacrificed to honor the Chimú gods. Experts say the children were sacrificed in relation to an “El Niño” event. They were killed during wet weather and buried facing the sea.
This is horrible news for the Native American innocence myth. The very worst site for a particularly horrific form of human sacrifice — the ritual killing of children! — long predates Christopher Columbus’s first steps in the New World.
Horrifying as this discovery is, it should not surprise anyone. Human sacrifice is tragically common throughout history, just like slavery. People in the Ancient Near East, Europe, China, Tibet, India, the Pacific, and West Africa practiced it — and it was horrifically common in the pre-Columbian Americas.
In Meso-America, the Mixtec sacrificed rulers who lost a ballgame, while the Maya sacrificed humans to close sinkholes — with many of those sacrificed being under 20 years old. The Aztecs infamously sacrificed roughly 80,400 prisoners (mostly defeated warriors) by ripping out their hearts. They also sacrificed children to appease their rain god, who required children’s tears.
In fact, the Day of the Dead festivities (before, during, and after Halloween) popular in modern Mexico extend back to Chapultepec Park, the resort of Montezuma and other Aztec rulers. The modern display of skulls is reminiscent of Aztec skull racks, huge wooden frames holding the impaled heads of enemies or sacrificial victims, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Many native tribes in the area that would become the United States also practiced human sacrifice. The Pawnee practiced an annual Morning Star Ceremony, which included the sacrifice of a young girl — until the 1800s.
The South American natives also sacrificed humans. The Moche of Eastern Peru sacrificed teenagers en masse. The Inca would sacrifice royal retainers when a leader died. For instance, as many as 4,000 servants, court officials, favorites, and concubines were killed upon the death of Emperor Huayna Capac in 1527. Mummies of sacrificed children have been recovered in the Inca regions of South America. The Inca also performed child sacrifices during important events, such as the death of an emperor or during a famine.
None of this is to suggest the Native Americans were uniquely evil — human sacrifice is tragically common in ancient cultures. It is one more facet of the Western heritage that should be celebrated, not demonized.
Western morality rightly condemns human sacrifice. According to the Bible, the Jewish God prohibited the practice in the Ancient Near East, but both the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah often lapsed back into the barbaric practice. The Romans had practiced human sacrifice but very infrequently — and explicitly banned the practice before the emergence of Christianity.
Christianity not only banned human sacrifice, but also the barbaric practices of pharmacological abortion and infant exposure — leaving unwanted babies to die in the woods. Christianity would also ban slavery in the early medieval era, and later inspire the abolitionist movement in the 1800s.
The Judeo-Christian Western heritage is far from perfect, but the ideals at its center have inspired the unprecedented prosperity of capitalism, the freedom of limited government, and the abolition of slavery and human sacrifice. The left’s attempts to demonize this heritage are disgusting — and they threaten to undermine the values that have so benefitted Americans and people across the world.
A Swedish professor has tried to normalize eating human flesh in an effort to fight climate change. How is this different from the idea of human sacrifice to appease the gods of wind and rain?
The archaeological discovery in Peru should serve as a reminder that the modern prosperity, freedom, and morality we now enjoy is not the norm in human history. These benefits must be defended, and those of us who enjoy them should be grateful to the Western heritage from which they sprang.
Follow Tyler O’Neil, the author of this article, on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
“The Judeo-Christian Western heritage is far from perfect, but the ideals at its center have inspired the unprecedented prosperity of capitalism”…. Don’t lay this Judeo Christian crap on me nor this capitalism crap. Capitalism is a jooish construct, no doubt!
As far as human sacrifice, the only thing that has changed is we are quote, more civilized in our sacrifice & hide behind the lie of patriotism. Sending our children into international criminal commie banker wars to be sacrificed for capitalistic mammon to slaughter children in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam. Just pick a country, no doubt the freak commies in this pseudo govt. have conned our children into sacrificial lambs.
We sacrifice our children to the commie state daily, 5 days per week, starting at nearly out of the womb, to the indoctrination institutions, known as schools.
We sacrifice our children’s & fellow country men’s life, health & wealth by having not rounded up these CRIMINALS that are carrying out civilized sacrifices.
Preach, Katie! Don’t stop til you’re wrong so you’ll be here awhile! 😀
BAM and SHAZAM Katie !! You’re on it !
Couldn’t agree more Katie
I would add: joo ritual of circumcision- quite barbaric and of course vaccination- corruption of the blood ….countless have been sacrificed to that ( now starting before birth)!
nothing new here. watch apocolypto.
or read fergus bordwitch’s “killing the white man’s indian-reinventing native americans at the end of the twentieth century” (really an awsome book. highly recommend)
or read what george custer had to say about american indians while still in west point and compare it to what he said in his autobiography after fighting indians in the west.
let’s just say that american indians were not all sugar and spice like elizabeth warren……
l”et’s just say that american indians were not all sugar and spice like elizabeth warren……”
Good one! LOL
Yeah, I hate when I see those words, “Judeo-Christian” together. It’s like some forced kind of marriage. – I want a divorce!! Ha!
Comments made so many good points made about modern-day human sacrifice. I will say that in youth I was programmed to see indigenous cultures as spiritually superior, like they had the truth and developed nations didn’t. Now it’s so hard to understand how they could think that sacrificing anything alive (especially children) could bear any kind of good fruit.
I think the reach for dignity could pull us up, and few solutions are more dignified than The Bill of Rights where all are free to believe what they will.
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‘…and few solutions are more dignified than The Bill of Rights where all are free to believe what they will. ‘ BAM !!!
“I will say that in youth I was programmed to see indigenous cultures as spiritually superior, like they had the truth and developed nations didn’t.”
Perfect galen. I totally relate.
MY GRANNY, WHO WAS CHEROKEE, MADE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHITE AND NATIVE……
SHE WOULD SAY,”THEY’RE ALL DAMN HEATHENS”……
AND THEN QUOTE THIS;
“om 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ”
GRANNY WAS NUTS….. BELIEVE ME, I KNOW…..
KATIE NAILED IT. GALEN NAILED IT…
THE NATIVES HERE WERE AND ARE JUST “PEOPLE”. THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT WANTS YOU TO FEEL “ASHAMED” OF BEING ” A NATURAL BORN AMERICAN. YOU ARE ALL PROBABLY JUST AS “NATIVE AMERICAN” AS POCAHONTIS HER SELF……
NEVER ALLOW THEM TO “MAKE YOU FEEL”. DONT GIVE THEM ANY QUARTER. NONE. JACK. ZIP. NADA.
IF YOU WANNA “THINK SOMETHING” DO IT BECAUSE IT IS YOUR CHIOCE. NOT SOMEONE ELSES.-+-
Man! Cool & wise granny!
Wow! Is this a new format here @ FTT. Went to leave a comment @ it is totally different.
Oh Ok, new theme.
IT FREAKED ME OUT SO BAD THAT I SENT A SCREENSHOT TO HENRY
Koyote, they have been hacked. You should have gotten a notice in your inbox email if this is how you get notices of new posts.
I did the same Koyote…….So the site got hacked?
No. It’s called your sight has been hacked.
IF THE JEWS HAD THEIR WAY, WE WOULD ALL BE WORSHIPPING THE “gods” OF OLD. YOU KNOW, THE ONES THAT DID THEIR BIDDING IN THE PAST? THE gods THAT “THEY” CONTROL. IF THEY CAN SHAME YOU INTO BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE “LESS THAN MAN”, IT IS ONLY A SHORT STEP TO BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE AN ANIMAL, AN ANIMAL THAT CAN BE TRAINED BY ANY HEATHEN ON EARTH. THIS IS WHY I AM SO OPPOSED TO THE TERM, “HUMAN” INSTEAD OF “MANKIND”, OR “MAN”, “WOMAN”, PEOPLE”…ETC. I WAS TAUGHT THAT A “KID” IS A BABY GOAT.
MY CHILDREN ARE NOT GOATS FOR SOME BABYLONIAN SACRIFICE!
IF YOU THINK PERHAPS I “DOTH PROTEST TO MUCH”,
SEND AN EMAIL TO HENRY ASKING ABOUT THE GRAVITY OF WORDS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS.
AFTER READING HIS COMMENTS YESTERDAY, IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN SIMILAR DISPUTES….
ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF “WHY”?
AND “WHO BENEFITS”?
DONT ALLOW THE BABYLONIAN JEW TO USE SYNTAX TO CREATE A SIN- TAX ON YOU, OR YOUR SOUL………..
THEY ARE NOW CLAIMING THAT THE TERM “HUMAN” CAME FROM THE WORD “HUMMUS” MEANING “DIRT”. IF THIS IS TRUE, THEN THEY STILL MEAN THAT WE ARE ALL SOULLESS ANIMALS. OR “GOLEMS” WHICH WERE CREATED NOT BY GOD, BUT BY JEWISH SORCERY.YOU ARE MORE THAN A “DIRT MAN”.
IF YOU ARE READING THIS; TRUST ME WHEN I SAY, THAT YOU ARE PART OF MANKIND. YOU ARE NOT AN “EVOLUTIONARY ANIMAL”.YOU ARE NOT GOLEM. CREATED BY JEWISH MYSTICS, NO MATTER HOW BADLY YOUR DESIRE TO BE.
THE JOOISH “GOD”…
an 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
Dan 11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
TO YOU “CHRISTIANS” OUT THERE;
IF YOU CAREFULLY READ AND UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAID ABOVE, YOU WILL LEARN HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO “FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES”, WHILE HONORING JUSTICE, AND OBEYING THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
YES. IT IS TRULY ABOUT “FREEDOM”. IT IS ALSO ABOUT “DIGNITY”…..TO “PUNISH THE WICKED” THROUGH GOVERNMENT IS NOT “REVENGE”.
WREST OUR GOVERNMENT FROM “THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD”!!!
WELL. THE SITE HAS BEEN HACKED.
I HAVE THIS TO SAY;
LISTEN TO ME COMMUNISTS…….VERY CAREFULLY.
YOUR TIME IS COMING TO AN END.
THERE WILL BE NO MERCY BECAUSE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU HAVE PROVIDED NO MERCY..
IT IS WHAT IT IS…
MAY AMERICA PROVIDE FOR YOU THE “JUSTICE” THAT YOU SO RICHLY DESERVE
well, I’m part Native American ..and I’m far from innocent when it comes to getting even
they call it a “child sacrifice grave yard”..how do they know? were they there?
could this also be just another Jew lie?..like all their dead