Read on Twitter
'During the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifice in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering.' https://twitter.com/hmtreasury/status/1278365243652128768
'At the Sacred Cenote in Chichen Itza, people were hurled into the cenote during times of drought, famine or disease. The Sacred Cenote is a naturally occurring sinkhole eroded from the local limestone...'
'At times sacrifices were tightly bound into a ball and were bounced in a ritual reenactment of the ballgame... other practices include burning victims alive, dancing in the skin of a skinned victim, taking head trophies, cannibalism, drinking a deceased relative's bath water...'
It is fitting, then, that the most British version of human sacrifice involves going to the pub.
May the gods be appeased and the economic line go up again.
May the gods be appeased and the economic line go up again.
Hard to decide if the UK government is more like a death cult or a cargo cult. Maybe it's both? A cargo cult for Brexit, and a death cult for Corona.
