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The Human Sacrifice in US mid-term elections

authorOmar | 7. November 2006

It is said, that in order to reconsecrate their temples the Aztecs offered human sacrifices to some god. Those sacrifices were better in bigger numbers, although the numbers were mostly exaggerated. There were sacrifices to be offered for many different reasons. There were those periodic sacrifices bound to cosmic cycles believed to be responsible for an end of the world if not stopped, there were the sacrifices that had to be offered before or even after a battle and there were the sacrifices to specific gods persuading them to do something. But the most interesting part of the sacrifice was not, who it was to, but who was to be sacrificed!

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