Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

This story about the ‘whistles of death’ caught my eye…and ear:

If death had a sound, this was it.

Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called Whistles of Death before they were sacrificed to the gods.

I’ve never heard anything in a movie that sounds half so evil as some of these.

So let me get this straight…the sacrifice is the one who blew these whistles? Calling death unto to himself? So he could pass into an afterlife that he thought sounded like that? Wow. And this happened 20,000 times a year.

Granted, we’re talking about a civilization that killed the winners of ball games. But still.

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