Apocalypto cinema session tonight at 9pm EST :marseyjaguarwarrior:

!kino i'm going to play this movie on Kino session chat tonight at 9pm EST for those interested. Let me know if you want to be added.

Replay tomorrow at same time.

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This movie is good but kind of frustrating. It gets a lot of the small details correct (Mayan fashion, lifestyle, the appearance of the city, their religious philosophy) but gets the bigger points wrong (the classical Mayan empire collapsed in 900ad, 600 years before the spanish showed up, the Mayans didn't practice human sacrifice on an industrial scale; that was the Aztecs). So the movie comes off as trying to show the fall of the Aztecs but attributing it to the Maya. Which is weird.

But taken solely as a film and not a historical piece it's bretty gud.

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the Mayans didn't practice human sacrifice

Biggest bullshit I ever fell for. (((anthropologists))) love to spout this nonsense

In reality

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17202897718078215.webp

We have songs from these "people" recorded in the fricking 18th century praising human sacrifice

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17202897720135539.webp

!chuds !nooticers get informed

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I thought the point the :marseyakshually: :soysnootypefast: tried to make was that the Maya didn't perform heart extraction (rather thye just beheaded the sacrificial victims), but that it was possible that the post-classical Maya were aztec influenced into them.

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>On an industrial scale; that was the Aztecs

You didn't even read the whole comment before rushing to "um, actually."

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>Mayan fashion

:marseyxd:

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Oh holy shit, you think :marseychildclutch: they didnt :marseyfingerwords: commit mass ritual :marseysatanworship1: human :marseycatbert2: sacrifice? Youre either r-slurred :marseyautism: or a mestizo in denial.

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The Aztecs famously sacraficed thousands at a time. The classical maya were more conservative about it. These empires were seperated by hundreds of years.

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Thank god for small :marseytiny1: pox.

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