Feeding the sun-god with blood

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RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION
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The Aztecs believed the sun was born “from sacrifice and blood.” Warfare was a sacred activity whose purpose was to capture enemy soldiers to sacrifice or feed to the gods.

 Lopez Austin noted that as long as men could offer the blood and hearts of captives taken in combat, the sun god would “continue on his course above the earth.” It was necessary to feed the sun every day with its food, the precious water, human blood.

The life of Aztec warriors had a singular purpose:  feeding the sun god.
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism