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Human Sacrifice and Political Power in the Aztec Empire

Human Sacrifice and Political Power in the Aztec Empire

Von Colton, Maya

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English 2026 ISBN 9783565326624
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Few practices in human history have been as misrepresented as Aztec ritual sacrifice. Stripped of context by conquest-era Spanish chroniclers and sensationalized by centuries of Western retelling, the rite has obscured far more than it has revealed. This book restores what that distortion removed: a coherent political and religious system in which sacrifice was not spectacle, but statecraft. Drawing on Nahuatl codices, excavation records from the Templo Mayor, and recent forensic archaeology, this history examines how the Aztec state used ritual killing as a technology of power. Sacrifice sanctified the emperor's authority, bound subordinate city-states through terror and obligation, and anchored a cosmic worldview in which human blood sustained the sun itself. To rule in Tenochtitlan was to control the boundary between human and divine order. This book traces that system from its ideological foundations through its administrative machinery, asking how a society organized around ritual death also produced extraordinary art, architecture, and diplomatic sophistication. It does not justify—it explains. And in explaining, it reveals an empire whose inner logic was far more coherent, and far more human, than the caricature history inherited from its conquerors.

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