From there and given to the captor. So the captive, in a way, was the product of the person who successfully had captured him in the battlefield. It wasnt just adults or prisoners of war that were sacrificed. Children were also groomed as offerings to the gods. The child was placed here. He would have cried, and in turn, those tears were good omens of rain. Really . The more the child cried, the better. When the spanish priests saw these sacrifices, they thought that the aztecs were barbarians and began making some radical changes. When the spanish came, they forced everyone to worship their own god. To make this happen, they set about destroying the aztecs cities and temples, and then they built their own imposing cathedrals on site to get the message home. After the aztec King Montezuma was killed, cortes drained the lake to build new palaces and churches, but over the centuries, the weight of the new religion has taken its toll. If you look over there, you can see that the building
Frida Kahlo's "Diego y yo" (Diego and I), the painting that set a record for highest auction price for a Latin American work, is creating a furor in Buenos Aires, where thousands of people in recent d. Kahlo's "Diego y yo" on display after 25 years, creating furor in Argentina | Life | English edition | Agencia EFE
By Veronica Dalto Buenos Aires, Aug 31 (EFE).- Frida Kahlo’s “Diego y yo” (Diego and I), the painting that set a record for highest auction price for a Latin American work, is creating a furor in Buenos Aires, where thousands of people in recent days have flocked to see the unique self-portrait, which for years …