re: #95 Dr Lizardo

I was thinking of the Aztecs; the argument regarding the Aztecs is to exactly how widespread cannibalism was, and what purpose it may have served. Was it simply part of a religious ritual, or was there some necessity in it?

Personally, I tend to lean more towards a ritualistic explanation for it, and frankly, I doubt it was as widespread as some of the conquistadores indicated in their writings.

Even its presence in a ritualistic setting would have been more than enough to set the conquistadores off. And while the Druids sacrificed humans only occasionally by the time the Romans encountered them, the Aztecs who the conquistadores encountered still practiced it on a vast scale, richly justifying their downfall.