by Michael Kile
Climate modelling of new data from the Aztec Codex Cihuacoatl has identified a relationship with important implications for global warming mitigation. The research suggests a strong causal pathway exists between climate change and Aztec rituals of “nourishing the gods” with blood sacrifice.
The evidence supports a revival of (humane) human sacrifice (HHS) as a mechanism for retarding environmental degradation and reducing dangerous climate change. HHS also would improve crop yields by allowing more effective control of surface temperature and rainfall; create anthropogenic biochar for soil enhancement and long-term carbon enrichment, especially in tropical environments with low-carbon sequestration capacity and depleted ferrasol and acrisol zones; and reduce population growth rates as the Earth’s carrying capacity comes under further pressure this century.
Opposition to human sacrifice as a climate change mitigation strategy is possible. However, society is on the cusp of a paradigm shift. Excessive individualism is in decline. Neo-liberalism is under attack. There is growing recognition our fate is determined by mysterious events related to the Sun (Sol)—333,000 times more massive than Earth and just eight light- minutes away. The Age of Sol is dawning.
The eco-spirituality that led to the first Earth Day celebration in Stockholm on April 22, 1970, fortunately has deepened over the past three decades or so. Voluntary sacrifice is no longer seen as the macabre ritual of a barbaric culture. It is more dignified than it was 500 years ago too, due to advances in psychotherapy and therapeutic medicine. There is a place for it in Sol’s pantheon. After all: “Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (and future generations). He shall gain everlasting life.”
The threat of climate change is real. A long period of dangerous solar irradiance is inevitable without decisive action. Humankind has angered Sol for too long. The precautionary principle justifies reviving (humane) human sacrifice (HHS). It would be a wise exercise in risk management. To be climate-change-ready, national and global mitigation strategies should include HSS commitments, based on national population growth projections.
In Australia, the government should offer generous grants to HHS dependants; issue free (securitised) sacrificial credits to working families; create a new Order of the Bleeding Heart; and restructure the now redundant carbon emissions trading scheme as the Human Pollution Reduction Scheme. These initiatives would send a strong message to the world—and to all Cihuacoatl sceptics and Huitzilopochtli deniers—that this country is serious about climate change.
Kile, M G, Montellano, X, & Borges, J L, 2008, “Re-interpreting Codex Cihuacoatl: New Evidence
for Climate Change Mitigation by Human Sacrifice.” Ancient Mesoamercia, 19(4) 225-265.
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HERE'S WHAT ACTUALLY APPEARS ON THE CITED PAGES OF VOLUME 19 OF ANCIENT MESOAMERICA:
THE MIDDLE PRECLASSIC FIGURINES FROM CAHAL PECH, BELIZE VALLEY
Nancy Peniche May, Lisa DeLance, Jaime J. Awe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2018, pp. 221-234
EL CONCEPTO DE XOCHIYAOYOTL EN EL MUNDO PREHISPÁNICO SEGÚN LAS RELACIONES DE CHIMALPAHIN CUAUHTLEHUANITZIN
Laura Alicino
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2019, pp. 235-244
Special Section: Before Teotihuacan—Altica, Exchange, Interactions, and the Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico
INTRODUCTION
William R. Fowler, Nancy Gonlin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2019, pp. 245-246
THE ALTICA PROJECT: REFRAMING THE FORMATIVE BASIN OF MEXICO
Wesley D. Stoner, Deborah L. Nichols
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2019, pp. 247-265
