AZTEC BLOOD - SPANISH CONQUEST
by R. H. Roberts
Capitan Hernán Cortés first saw
Aztec horrors as he awoke
that first morning in what is now
Mexico City. He could not
avoid hearing the depraved screaming
of the enslaved prisoners who were being
sacrificed on shallow stone altars.
The Aztec prisoners were simply mutilated,
gutted, with their human flesh torn open
by jade knives wielded by ruthless priests
atop high stone pyramids! Men and women
were destroyed, obliterated, massacred on
a scale that Catholic Spanish believers
could never imagine.
As if the devil incarnate were at work,
in these new lands, the Aztec leaders seemed
poisoned with rage, furor, and monstrosity.
Blood. bile, brains, flesh, gore everywhere,
tears, sobs, screaming, dying breaths and
supplications could not be missed by a
person within a quarter mile.
The terribly powerful infected Aztec rulers,
priests and rabble killed or mortally wounded
everyone they possibly could find, regardless
of a confession of fealty or pleadings of mercy.
So impressed with this spectacle of murder,
intrigue and blood were the Spanish Conquistadors
they themselves decided upon a nefarious plan
to destroy the entire Aztec empire -- man by man!
So the bloody tale of the Spanish conquest of Mexico
in the early 16th century set an example for all further
conquests in the new world! The Spanish and Portuguese
Holy Emperors, and their most Catholic majesties even
condoned such actions for hundreds of years!
Bloody history is often worse than dark fiction!
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