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Re:Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal... by dr_dshiv on Saturday November 06, 2021 @07:53AM (#29129436)
Can you imagine the feeling of watching a human sacrifice in a crowd of 10,000 people? Or watching the king pierce his own penis with a stingray spine? The blood! And still-beating hearts! The collective empathy induced by these powerful experiences, specifically the affective resonance, would be a powerful binding force. Especially when combined with the pounding music and (occasionally) psychedelics [1].

Wikipedia has a nice article on Mayan human sacrifice [2]. It all sounds so brutal, but then again, so is Squid Game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogenics_and_the_Maya

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_cultur...

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Re:Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal... by oblib on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:27PM (#29133950)
We still have capital punishment so, yeah.

I'll offer that was probably not any more common in Mayan life than ours now and those glyphs and stories are a sort of example used to keep folks in check or aggrandize the rulers of the day and in regards to those not much has changed.

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Re:Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal... by goldenManatee on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:12PM (#29132440)
Cannot compute, mind overload, lol
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