The Satanic Aztec Culture

Did you know that the Aztec culture in Mexico in the 15th and 16th centuries, which the Catholic conquistadors physically overthrew – and which the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe spiritually crushed – was arguably the wickedest culture in human history?

“Many primitive peoples have practiced occasional human sacrifice and some have practiced cannibalism.  None has ever done so on a scale remotely approaching that of the Aztecs.  No one will ever know how many they sacrificed; but the law of the empire required a thousand sacrifices to the Aztec tribal god Huitzilopochtli in every town with a temple, every year; and there were 371 subject towns in the Aztec empire…

“Every Aztec city and large town had a central square, from which a high pyramidal temple rose, and four gates opening upon four roads approaching the town in straight lines extending at least five miles, each ending at one side of the pyramid temple… Month after month, year after year, in temple after temple, the sacrificial victims came down the roads to the steps, climbed up the steps to the platform at the top, and there were bent backwards over large convex slabs of polished stone by a hook around the neck wielded by a priest with head and arms stained black, never-cut black hair all caked and matted with dried blood, and once-white garments soaked and stained with innumerable gouts of crimson.  An immense knife with a blade of midnight black volcanic glass rose and fell, cutting the victim open.  His heart was torn out while still beating and held up for all to see, while his ravaged body was kicked over the edge of the temple platform where it bounced and slithered in obscene contortions down the steps to the bottom a hundred feet below.  Later, the limbs of the body were eaten…

“The early Mexican historian Ixtlilxochitl estimated that one out of every five children in Mexico was sacrificed… An almost universal symbol in Mexican religion was the serpent.  Sacrifices were heralded by the prolonged beating of an immense drum made of skins of huge snakes, which could be heard two miles away.  Nowhere else in human history has Satan so formalized and institutionalized his worship with so many of his own actual titles and symbols.” (Warren H. Carroll, Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness, pp. 8-11)

Here is a description of the 1487 Aztec dedication of a new pyramid temple to their false god, Huitzilopochtli:

“Tlacaelell decided that this central temple should be dedicated with the greatest mass sacrifice of his fifty-eight years of dominance in the Aztec empire.  As always, he had his way.  In R.C. Padden’s memorable description: ‘Well before daybreak of the opening day, legionnaires prepared victims, who were put in close single file down the steps of the great pyramid, through the city, out over the causeways, and as far as the eye could see.  For the average person viewing the spectacle from roof top, it would appear that the victims stretched in lines to the end of the earth.  The bulk of unfortunates were from hostile provinces and the swollen ranks of slavery.  On the pyramid’s summit, four slabs had been set up, one at the head of each staircase, for Tlacaellel and the three kings of the Triple Alliance, all of whom were to begin the affair as sacrificial priests.  All were in readiness; the lines of victims were strung out for miles, with great resevoirs at their ends, thousands of trapped humans milling about like cattle, awaiting their turn in the line that was about to move.  Suddenly, the brilliantly arrayed kings approached Huitzilopochtli’s [the false god’s] chapel and made reverent obeisance.  As they turned to join their aides at the four slabs, great snakeskin drums began to throb, announcing that the lines could now begin to move.

“Relays of priests dispatched the victims.  As each group tired [of killing], others of the thousands who were to live below in the new temple stepped forward to relieve them and keep up the pace.  Years of practice had given them a skill and speed almost incredible.  Reliable evidence indicates that it took only fifteen seconds to kill each victim.  Blood and bodies cascaded in an endless stream down the temple steps.  Hearts were assembled in piles and skulls in endless racks.

“It went on four days and four nights.  More than eighty thousand men were killed.  Tlacaellel had commanded all the high nobility of Mexico to be present, watching from scented, rose-covered boxes; but eventually the bonds of custom and even of fear were burst by overwhelming horror, and most of the spectators fled, along with many people of the city.  Even those who could hide from the sight of what was happening were unable any longer to endure the stench.  But Tlacaellel [the architect of the Empire] at eighty-nine remained to the very end, watching the victims killed at fifteen seconds per man, until the last of the eighty thousand had their hearts torn out before his devouring eyes.” (Warren H. Carroll, Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness, pp. 8-11)

Perhaps this bit of history, more than any other, illustrates the truth of the Scriptural teaching that the gods of the heathen are actually devils.

Psalms 95:5- “For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils…”

1 Cor. 10:20- “But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God.  And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.”