Bloodletting in Mesoamerica
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Bloodletting in Mesoamerica
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Bloodletting was the ritualized practice of self-cutting or piercing of an individual's body that served a number of ideological and cultural functions within ancient Mesoamerican societies, in particular the Maya. When performed by ruling elites, the act of bloodletting was crucial to the maintenance of sociocultural and political structure. Bound within the Mesoamerican belief systems, bloodletting was used as a tool to legitimize the ruling lineage's socio-political position and, when enacted
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Ritualized practice of self-cutting in Mesoamerica
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting_in_Mesoamerica
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2024-02-19T21:42:43Z
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