Before the Aztec civilization became united, the Olmec tribe roamed throughout Central America . This tribe was well-known for being the ancestor of the Aztecs. This primitive yet prominent tribe encouraged and influenced the many ethnic groups in ancient Mexico to adapt to their hostile ways of life. The Olmecs escalated human sacrifice in Mesoamerica . The tribe eventually disappeared, but their beliefs of homicide in religion would still linger in the ideology of the Aztecs. Out of all the things that the Aztecs did, human sacrifice was the most despicable idea and the gristle series of actions that the Aztecs ever performed and developed . Human sacrifice promoted immorality. It degraded the individual person. The Aztec people didn't see the value of the human person because of their clouded morals of superstition. Seeing it as a privilege to die, death raged in their culture. It was thought that with …show more content…
Many of them, not surprisingly, were influenced by the Olmecs . The Olmecs exercised their seasonal rituals to the sun, rain, and the beginning of the year . The Aztecs followed suit and adopted the ideas of their ancestors. Many of these abdominal practices included the ritual ball game, the festival of Tlacaxipehualizlti (Flaying of men), and the drowning of innocent children, in reparation to the god Tlaloc . These sacrifices were practiced to attain rain through the tears of the children, the ball game to give energy to the sun, and to make their crops thrive by dressing a statue of the god of plants in the flayed human skin. These seasonal practices, as well as the common forms of human sacrifice, had a pattern of revolving around humans as a tribute to these malevolent gods . As once can infer, the Aztecs seemed to have a need and an excuse to see blood, to take a human life, all to have an offering to these cruel, malicious