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Human sacrifice in Maya culture : ウィキペディア英語版 | Human sacrifice in Maya culture
During the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifice in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering. By extension, the sacrifice of a human life was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice. Generally only high status prisoners of war were sacrificed, with lower status captives being used for labour.〔Sharer and Traxler 2006, p. 751.〕 Human sacrifice among the Maya is evident from at least the Classic period (c. AD 250-900) right through to the final stages of the Spanish conquest in the 17th century. Human sacrifice is depicted in Classic Maya art, is mentioned in Classic period hieroglyphic texts and has been verified archaeologically by analysis of skeletal remains from the Classic and Postclassic (c. AD 900-1524) periods. Additionally, human sacrifice is described in a number of late Maya and early Spanish colonial texts, including the ''Madrid Codex'', the K'iche' epic ''Popol Vuh'', the K'iche' ''Título de Totonicapán'', the K'iche' language ''Rabinal Achi'', the ''Annals of the Kaqchikels'', the Yucatec ''Songs of Dzitbalche'' and Diego de Landa's ''Relación de las cosas de Yucatán''. A number of methods were employed by the Maya, the most common being decapitation and heart extraction. Additional forms of sacrifice included ritually shooting the victim with arrows, hurling sacrifices into a deep sinkhole, entombing alive to accompany a noble burial, tying the sacrifice into a ball for a ritual reenactment of the Mesoamerican ballgame and disembowelment. ==Methods== A variety of methods were used by the ancient Maya to perform human sacrifice:
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