Not Better Than the Aztecs

It has been troubling me – no, more precisely: it has been tormenting me – for years what the peoples of South America did to each other before (and sometimes even during) the arrival of the Spaniards. It torments me because it makes me despair of all humanity. And I ask in confusion: How can people do such things to other people?!

The Aztecs, for instance, concerned about their own climate change (see also Essay from June 30, 2019), would kill a prisoner of war in bloody rituals and ceremonially flay him – and sometimes they would kill thousands of prisoners of war – so that the gods would bring good weather again.

Not always were only prisoners of war sacrificed by the Aztecs to appease the gods. Sometimes, they sacrificed children, even their own.

The German Wikipedia states refreshingly sober: „The human sacrifices were completely painted with the sacrificial color gray and were possibly under the influence of drugs to avoid screams. They were taken to the top of the temple pyramid of Tenochtitlán. Four priests held the prisoner by the hands and feet while a fifth cut open his chest with an obsidian knife. He raised the beating heart of the sun and sprinkled the blood on images of the gods, then placed it in an eagle bowl. Finally, the body of the victim was pushed down the pyramid steps.“

In 2019, I compared German migration policy to the bloody sacrifices of the Aztecs. For the „gods of migration policy“ (i.e., global actors who live far removed from the consequences of their demands), one sacrifices not only the land and all savings but sometimes even the lives of one’s own children – or even one’s own. Is that not what Germany is doing in migration policy?

Ah, it was a metaphor, but only in the sense that it is not the „priests of German propaganda“ who plunge the knife into the victims. The new German priests merely ensure the necessary emotional numbness in the German majority so that sacrificial acts can be carried out without greater uproar.

The Wife of Huitzilopochtli

Via 9gag (an American meme website, somewhat more serious than CNN or Tagesschau) I learned recently about the „Wife of Huitzilopochtli“; and I read about it among others at mexicolore.co.uk, 02.09.2025.

The Mexica were then the dominant group within the Aztecs. The various tribes of America at that time were constantly at odds and waged bloody wars. Nevertheless, the Mexica gradually established their dominance. Even marriages and other alliances between Mexica and non-Mexica were formed.

The Mexica sought peace with a tribe called Culhua. At the demand of their own priests (for the god Huitzilopochtli), the Mexica decided to address the Culhua leader Achitometl directly.

The Mexica offered him that his daughter would become the „Wife of Huitzilopochtli.“

Achitometl apparently did not fully understand what „Wife of Huitzilopochtli“ meant – and he readily agreed. His daughter would be honored and peace would be made. That sounded great, didn’t it?

There the Father Realized

Well, his daughter was indeed brought to the city Tizaapan and was received there with a grand ceremony, honored and celebrated.

Then she was sacrificed.

According to ancient tradition, her skin was stripped from her body. A Huitzilopochtli priest wore her skin. That was what it meant to become the „Wife of Huitzilopochtli.“ (All of this was supposed to symbolically represent the renewal of life, which is not unimportant for agriculture.)

The Mexica even invited the father Achitometl to participate in the conclusion of the grand festivities. But there, the father recognized his daughter’s skin on the body of the priest – and he reacted exactly as we would expect a human to react.

The Culhua tribe took up arms, and other tribes joined them. Together, they drove the Mexica back into the swamps from which they had come.

No Invasion Army

It is indeed a shocking and creepy story that we read, and about which I learned at 9gag. But a particular comment about it sent a chill down my spine:

It’s funny that even in the most primitive past, the massacre of a girl was enough to drive away a violent and invading power, while nowadays it doesn’t even suffice to justify legal consequences. – It’s not really very funny. (Weißbrotfisch on 9gag.com; Original English)

The comment by Weißbrotfisch does not imply that the young men who are today guests in the country, and of whom some young girls may suffer harm, are part of an „invasion army.“ For the establishment of an invasion army, there would need to be circumstances such as a clear chain of command and defined goals, which are not present in the current developments. (It is also logically possible that the current conditions and the current orientation differ significantly from the goal that the global actors really aim for.)

That comment first notes that back then the massacre of a girl motivated a collective outcry and massive collective action. And that today, the brutal, deeply unjust killing of girls does not even lead to adequate legal consequences in all cases, at least not for the perpetrator.

„What We Don’t Need“

Just two days ago, in the essay „Old Parties Decide on a Cartel of Silence“, I mentioned the case of the 16-year-old who was allegedly pushed in front of a train by an Iraqi asylum seeker and died.

In the meantime, we read that the asylum application of the alleged perpetrator had been rejected. Actually, he should not have been in Germany anymore. One could formulate this ethical thesis: „Every politician and every bureaucrat who, through omission or even active sabotage, prevents a truly effective deportation of such individuals has morally committed murder.“

But how does the German propaganda state react? The notorious NDR headlines quoting: „Dead 16-Year-Old: ‚What We Don’t Need is Hate and Incitement.'“ (ndr.de, 01.09.2025).

Just imagine that the Mexica priest back then presented the skin of that girl cheekily before the father and that the priests of the Culhua had first called soothingly: „Yes, he wears her skin as a dress, but what we don’t need is hate and incitement!“

To Stop the Eternal Change Forever

We could describe the peoples of pre-colonial America as brutal and barbaric, both in North and South America, and that would not be entirely wrong. What these people did to each other was partly simply inhumane.

No, it is not an appropriate way to treat prisoners of war to strip their scalps (and it is a shame that Europeans adopted the practice of scalping in the fight against the natives from them).

No, it is not „diversity“ and a lovable local custom to cut out the hearts of prisoners of war and hold them towards the sun to influence the climate. (Aside from the bloody aspect, it is similarly insane to destroy one’s own economy to magically stop eternal climate change after millions of years through this sacrifice.)

No, it is not human to kill the entrusted daughter of a neighboring king, strip her skin, and parade it over one’s own skin before the father.

Yes, it is terrible what the Aztecs did to each other back then. So it is good that we are today so much more moral than the Aztecs were back then.

Hmm, are we really?

So It Doesn’t Cry Out

When a young girl was so shamefully killed back then, there was promptly a collective outcry – and people did something about it.

The priests of today’s propaganda state react by admonishing the people not to respond emotionally – and thus: humanly – to the senseless, avoidable killing of one of their children.

Back then, the Aztecs drugged the people to be sacrificed so that they would not disturb the ceremony with cries of pain.

Today, the people are injected with a drug called propaganda so that mothers and fathers do not cry out when the daughters of the land are sacrificed for the appeasement of higher powers in the name of a supposed „morality.“

We as a collective may not be any better people than the Aztecs. The majority is rather under drugs that have made them numb – and one of the effects of these drugs is the firm belief that they belong to the „good people,“ no matter how much suffering and destruction they cause.

Comfortably Numb

The German majority is, as Pink Floyd sang, „comfortably numb“ – that is, „in a comfortable way numb to pain.“ But, dear readers, please do not believe for a second that it would get better under Merz. The Family Ministry is known to function de facto as the German Ministry of Propaganda, and there the funds for propaganda have been increased (nius.de, 29.08.2025).

One effect of today’s propaganda drugs could be described as ethical circularity: „We are the good ones because everything we do is good – and everything we do is good because it was done by the good ones.“

Such ethical circularity is a propaganda drug injected by the „Our Democracy“ state. The result is a moral high that makes the majority indifferently accept that a deportable asylum seeker lets a 16-year-old girl be crushed by a train.

No, we may not be any better than the Aztecs. The majority is merely on different and stronger drugs.

For you and me, however, the only lesson and realization remains this: The times are evil, so you must become better than the times.