Human sacrifice in Aztec cultures is actually really fascinating. First of all, it happened monthly. There was 18-month calendar that the Aztecs operated under, and they'd have different specific sacrifices that they do to specific deities every month.

But the people who were being sacrificed, generally speaking, were very willing participants in it because they understood their role in the drama, the cosmic drama that was being played out. And anthropologists who have studied it find it to be almost unbelievable that people were forced into the sacrifices most of the time. There were some that were. But most of the time, they couldn't really have been because so much went along with being a sacrifice.

Then it would be like there are varying reports on it, but like what people who really studied it come away from it with is that it's Spaniard propaganda for the most part. Yeah. Because the Spanish who came in and conquered, they needed to justify a lot of their atrocities.