I should add that I think the ancients did realize that the sexual drive was something that needed to be controlled. Hence all these laws and stipulations trying to manage it. The idea of monogamy is a great one. Self control is also a good thing.
I've always wondered why god was so desperate to populate the Earth. I mean, he tied the one thing that feels the most pleasurable to a human being, with conception of a child. And there's no escaping it. It's a natural innate addiction all human beings are born with.
Probably because Moloch and the like love sacrifice and mass ritual killings. Got to keep your numbers up against those that want to kill your followers.
yeah the human sacrifice thing was also so freakin' weird. Why would anyone assume "Oh no we're going thru a drought! we're gonna starve to death!! Oh we know why!! the gods want us to kill one of our kids!!! Johnny! get over here to the furnace, Quetzalcoatl wants you to jump in so the rest of your 15 brothers and sister can eat!!
The Aztecs were cannibals. Warriors would choose a specific capture and they alone would be allowed to eat them. If you didn't capture anyone you had to make do with whoever's remains you got. Pretty fucked up right? People still call Cortez evil for some fucking reason, boggles the mind.
God's MO is that if it's easy you're on the wrong path. So it makes sense the path of least resistance was the biggest thing to fuck us.
I should add that I think the ancients did realize that the sexual drive was something that needed to be controlled. Hence all these laws and stipulations trying to manage it. The idea of monogamy is a great one. Self control is also a good thing.
I've always wondered why god was so desperate to populate the Earth. I mean, he tied the one thing that feels the most pleasurable to a human being, with conception of a child. And there's no escaping it. It's a natural innate addiction all human beings are born with.
Probably because Moloch and the like love sacrifice and mass ritual killings. Got to keep your numbers up against those that want to kill your followers.
yeah the human sacrifice thing was also so freakin' weird. Why would anyone assume "Oh no we're going thru a drought! we're gonna starve to death!! Oh we know why!! the gods want us to kill one of our kids!!! Johnny! get over here to the furnace, Quetzalcoatl wants you to jump in so the rest of your 15 brothers and sister can eat!!
The Aztecs were cannibals. Warriors would choose a specific capture and they alone would be allowed to eat them. If you didn't capture anyone you had to make do with whoever's remains you got. Pretty fucked up right? People still call Cortez evil for some fucking reason, boggles the mind.