Why did human sacrifices appear in the Mayan era?

The mystery of Mayan civilization-Yuan Xin's experiment of human sacrifice skeleton shows that what was sacred and extraordinary in those days is the key to solving the mystery of Mayan culture today. The mysterious Mayan civilization gives people the most intuitive impression of its omnipresent gods. The genius of Maya in astronomy, mathematics, calendar, chronology, writing, art and belief is amazing. In Maya's "world of gods", the sacrificial objects and rituals in different periods show different Mayan psychological cultures. Recently, after DNA testing of more than 50 human sacrifice bones found in the Moon Pyramid at Teotihuacan site in Mexico in 2004, archaeologists found that these "enemies" escorted to the Moon Pyramid from other tribes hundreds of kilometers away were used as human sacrifices, and this behavior lasted for centuries. The results of DNA tests show that these victims are from other Mayan tribes located in the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean. They were killed and sacrificed between 500 BC and 50 BC, and many of them were beheaded. They were killed at different times and used as sacrifices at different stages of pyramid construction. Archaeologists also found symbolic animal remains around human sacrificial bones, including pumas, coyotes, eagles and snakes, as well as obsidian knives and many other precious cultural relics. Human sacrifice, the dark side of Mayan civilization. Judging from the evolutionary history of Mayan religions, at first, Mayan religions only worshipped nature and personified the natural forces that influenced and regulated their lives. The sun, the moon, rain, lightning, hurricanes, mountains, forests, rivers and rapids surrounded the Mayans, and their interaction formed the background of their fishing and hunting life. Such a simple worship of natural forces does not need any decent organizational form, priests and esoteric knowledge to explain, a set of sacrificial ceremonies and well-designed ceremonies to demonstrate and practice, and no special places of worship. With the rise of agricultural production mode (probably introduced into Maya area from outside), there have been fixed residences and more leisure. At this time, Mayan religion became more and more systematic, and God itself became more and more special. With the development of priests who are responsible for explaining and conveying God's will to the masses, the demand for more decent religious places (holy places, temples) is also growing. Religion has become a matter for the minority to the majority. Calendar, chronology and hieroglyphics, the three major invention patents of priests, have brought a major turning point to Mayan religion, making it more and more complicated and formalized. A unique religious philosophy has gradually formed, surrounding increasingly important astronomical phenomena, including the holy tower in the calendar chronology. Archaeological excavations have basically confirmed this major religious turning point, and the 3rd century BC is an important time mark. By the 4th century, Mayan culture, mainly the distinctive features of its religious philosophy, had been firmly established. Maya religion has become a highly developed "superstition" in important areas that are considered as the source of Mayan civilization, such as Peten Lake. It is based on the increasingly personification of natural forces and the complex integration of more and more mature philosophy; Celestial bodies are deified and time is worshipped in various forms that are rare in the world. /kloc-in the post-classical period after the 0/0 century, the marriage between politics and religion became increasingly obvious, which may also be the result of religious conflicts and variations caused by foreign military conquest. The Toltecs from central Mexico brought lower-level things, such as human sacrifice and idolatry. According to the pacifist purpose of various sculptures in the classical period (almost no human sacrifice), the Mayan religion at that time must be solemn and magnificent, and it would not be as disgusting and cruel as human sacrifice. In several surviving Mayan scriptures, we can see the image description of the main god tower that constitutes the Mayan god system. According to its frequency in the manuscripts of Confucian classics, * * * has 10 prominent positions. Among them, Ixer, the goddess of the moon, is in charge of floods, textiles and pregnancy. She is an angry old woman. Her little bottle is full of floods. When she was angry, she punished mankind and dumped it on the earth. But she also has a good side. As the spouse of Izammna, she represents the moon, and the sun god and the moon god are just right. Judging from the fact that she is in charge of textiles, she is also a god of creation and invention. She was painted hostile, with a creepy cross-bone pattern on her skirt, and her hands and feet were like the claws of a fierce animal, so she was also called "Tiger Claw Old Woman". What was secretly recorded and taught by the Maya magical powers in those days became an eternal secret or an open secret under the coercion of foreign invaders. In the eyes of today's cultural researchers, what was sacred and extraordinary in the eyes of the Mayans in those days was just a key to solve the mystery of Mayan culture.