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Although the accounts are distorted, the speaker says they describe human sacrifice on an almost industrial scale, including drugged prisoners paraded from the pyramid complex.
Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“There were a regular cycle of sacrifice and that would peak according to particular crises, major campaigns or the like.”
“There are accounts,”
“again,”
“these are distorted accounts,”
“but an almost industrial level of human sacrifice that the parade of prisoners who've been drugged to keep them pacified stretched from the pyramid complex all the way.”1:21:37Report a misattribution
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