Here, we have the father of Aztec Batman giving the Spanish colonist a moral lesson, saying, “Does your God allow the murder of women and children?” https://i.imgur.com/UOSEvp6.jpeg
I should point out that Batman's father here is the village chief, and in order to climb the social ladder in Aztec society, it was necessary to sacrifice slaves and children, either by ripping out their hearts while they were still alive, by burning them alive, or by drowning them.
In Aztec culture, children were offered as sacrifices to Tlaloc, the god of rain.
It was believed that their cries fed the clouds and brought abundant harvests.
The indigenous people mistreated by the Aztecs were so relieved that the conquistadors came to kill the Aztecs that they joined them with joy and some of them even gave their DAUGHTERS in marriage to the Spaniards.
They didn't just join them. They made up most of the army. Without them joining the handful of Spanish wouldn't have been able to destroy the Aztec empire in the first place. So really it wasn't the Spanish that destroyed the Aztec. Their arrival was just the catalyst.
yep, in no way could 500 conquistadors defeat the Aztec capital of 300,000 people without involvement of the Aztec subjugated neighboring tribes
Yup! In the climatic battle that turned the tide & eventually destroyed the Aztecs? The Spanish were on the run! Vastly outnumbered, low on supplies and ammo they were racing to get back to their boats & flee. They sent diplomats ahead to contact the various tribes between themselves and their ships & ended up recruiting them all! (They were probably begging for food & right of passage, but hit the jackpot!)
They dragged all the cannon off their ships & set up in a terrain that perfectly suited their army. The friendly tribes held the 2 flanks. When the Aztecs attacked they came in waves. The Spanish gunned them down and the few that got close were met with armoured men swinging halberds. The fleeing survivors disrupted the next wave every time until the whole army broke ranks & tried to flee. Then the tribes attacked them, decades & centuries of abuse were avenged.
iirc ofc. 😸
Its amazing how little history they know that of all the Mesoamerican tribes and people's they could use to get 50% of what they want out of this idea (the look, the art, the violence) they pick the one that literally has no redeeming qualities or moral ground to stand on.
The Olmecs are right there, and despite being centuries apart contain a bunch of the same cultural traits that the Aztecs do that would get you most of the same stuff without any of the historical hate.
But that would also remove the "white man bad" angle as they went extinct sometime in the 300~ BC times, and we all know that is the other half the reason they picked this to begin with.
It's fascinating that they are demonizing white people using the white, Christian morality introduced by the colonizers.
One wonders whether they truly believe in that moral paradigm. Or perhaps they secretly want to rip some hearts out again?
Its because deep down that lack the ability to understand things outside themselves. To them its not "white, Christian morality" its just basic "kindness" and Whitey is just trying to steal credit for it. You can see this in not only their politics and the words they use for it, but in all their art.
Lovecraft is a great example, because the very idea is something unknowable and outside human comprehension. To them, its just tentacles and "existentialism so scary."
And in this case, the Aztecs weren't brutally evil assholes everyone hated but simply different and misunderstood and those monstrous Spaniards made them look eviler than they were. Probably also something something whitey wrote the history book and its all lies.
I thought this sounded familiar.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19BaD6o3IR/aztec-batman-amasses-an-army-aga/c/
Embed in the OP has some great replies on Twitter calling out how retarded the whole concept is so luckily it's not just this board pointing out how pants on head retarded the character ends up.
It's the greatest commandment of the woke,...
White men are always inherently evil and at fault. The world would be ice cream and puppies without them
Shit ice cream and dead puppies.
I'm sure your heard the story of the of the Aztec settling where they saw an eagle eating a snake.
Ever heard the story of why they were looking for a place to live then?
Here is my paraphrased and possibly memory addled version.
They had been given a parcel of land by a king of another people bordering the Lake Texcoco where Mexico City now is.
They said to the king: Give us your daughter so we can make her our goddess. He said why not.
Later they invited the king to a banquet. After the king was seated, their priest then came out dancing wearing his daughter's skin as a suit.
The king then told them to get the %^&* out.
Non memory addled version
https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-us/the-story-of-the-sacrifice-of-a-colhua-princess
Good grief...
Even before that though (heavily paraphrased, iirc stuff) a southern man (possibly a general?) who was exiled from his kingdom went north and found a tribe of really tough folks living in a harsh place. He took 10 years to win them over, organize their army & modernize their weapons and tactics.
They then took everything they could carry, burned what was left & the entire tribe moved south bent on conquest.
It was super-effective!
From an Aztec? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If he said no, the Aztec would have expressed sudden disinterest.
"What do you mean you don't do ritualistic human sacrifice? Don't you know that you need to do that to keep the sun working?"
Fucking whitey, and they wonder why climate change is happening.
Cortez was a merchant with a token squad of mercs and some hardware. What he found was so horrific, he told Hans to get the big flamer, burn the ships, and level this continent.
This isn't even a surprise, to the left, Whites are ALWAYS wrong and evil throughout history. And if the history books don't say that, it's the Whites fault, they altered the history books, they're the evil ones.
It's essentially like what the gryopers and stormfront guys say about the Jews, just switch Jews for Whites and have zero evidence to back up ANY of it and you have the modern left artists...
In fact the God of the Bible does allow the killing of hostile men, women and children. So? At least he doesn't require it on a continuing basis.
The Spanish of that era were monsters, assholes! But I'd take them over the Aztec any day.