Apocalypto Sacrifice Scene

A clip from Mel Gibson's Apocalypto depicting a Maya Sacrificial ceremony. The video was embedded in a Google Earth presentation and was cited accordingly.

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Education

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• Maya
• Sacrifice
• Apocalypto

[ironmantis25]

@CheddarBob39

Every civilization have their cruelties. Besides, doesn't europe have their occasional burning heretics at a stake.

[PizzaBlade17]

@lum2ina

You are assuming my age based on a few youtube comments? that's idiotic isn't it? Well your argument "we can't see the force on the earth revolve around the sun, but it's true" Well proof doesn't work on vision alone. Through experiments the Earth's movement around the sun is testable and verifiable unfortunately sacrifice isn't it. Meditation and Yoga are proven to calm the body down and lower blood pressure not "sacrifice time" you sir are a deluded and irrational person. Get help.

[speeddemon847]

is the alpha warrior( the one that cut his hand) a jaguar or an eagle? hard to tell

[mmmmmvodka]

@8thDan24 This is Mel Gibson we're talking about. He doesn't care about technicalities.

[gasolinedreamer]

@8thDan24 Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Mayans occasionally have festivals honoring the Gods (in the case of this scene, a festival honoring the sun god Kulkulkan) in which they did indeed rounds up prisoners for human sacrifice? If so, then this scene is indeed historically accurate, though indeed, the Mayans did not practice this ritual anywhere near as often as the Aztecs.

[Dour888]

):D-Kalimaaaaa-):D-Kalimaaaaa-­)8D-KALIM-"8I....... WAIT A SEC!.....wrong ceremony sry XP

[Zofnok]

@Strmnkz How do they know the language? Believe or not there are still mayans alive today.

[polynesianpuppet]

well i guess none of us will ever know...because we weren't there

[8thDan24]

If Gibson intended this to be the Mayan culture, he got this scene completely wrong. Human sacrifice was an absolute rarity in the Mayan culture. The Aztec people was the civilization who most commonly used Human sacrifice.

[Strmnkz]

how there r know the language

[lum2ina]

@PizzaBlade17 Nope, people you least expected believe in those things. it's like spiderwick chronicles. you leave food trails, big trees then something will be attracted to those objects. if you speculate, go to dark places and empty buildings, see if ur not eerie. a lot of anthropologist and scientists are fascinated with trunyan, but werent able to gather much, because they are isolated

[PizzaBlade17]

@lum2ina

Wow hahahaha are the people of Trunyan that stupid? the believe in spirits going around that need food, blood, and swings? You do this even though there is no evidence.