Human sacrifices is one of the traditional beliefs of many ancient civilization. In my previous article "Weigle's Types of Creation Myths - Part II", I have mentioned that in other Mythology, believe that the world was once created by the form of human sacrifices;

god sacrifice one's body in order to build a new creation, some are buried alive, killed to sacrifice the blood and cut one's body to offer.

If you want to read more about how the world was created in terms of Mythology, hopefully my piece can give you some idea.

By the way, my purpose here is to share a story and a bit of information. Still, if you want something to add or clarify, just let me know.

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Have you heard stories that a bridge, a tourist destination or any establishments are made through the process of human sacrifices?

Way back years ago; It was a normal day, me and my classmate was having chitchats until he lower his voice and said "I have secret to tell you." Since it's a kind of interesting to know a secret then I asked him what it is. He stated the our school was build through human sacrifices, that the founder use someone's blood in order to strengthen the foundation of the school. I am just laughing listening to his story, as I know this kind of act is real but centuries ago, in todays I am confident that no one still do this practices.

The next day, since there's no class, I chatted him to ask where did he get the story. He replied that his cousin is an old teacher in our school. They found out that in order to maintain the agreement of human sacrifices, they must sacrifice one student every after 10 years. This became real as they observe that in every 10 years there's a one student missing. Added to his cousin, the founder choose the student through placing all the student's name and the name that will appear is the unlucky one.

My friend also stated some points for me to observe. One of it is, there's no sign of any religious things inside our campus. And also, we never conduct mass inside the campus. I've been studied in five different schools and four of it conduct a monthly mass; there's room for Christians and Muslim. Only one school didn't do this, and that is what I am referring to.

Honestly, the first time I enter the school with my friends is during enrollment period. It was a gloomy morning, not so much people inside. And the first thing I said when we sit in the school's bench is "Why this place looks cemetery?", I really said this because the formation of their pots are like tombs. It was like you're in a village, because the rooms are not arranged in an organized way. There's a big building, just it's looks creepy because only few students, it is quiet, and it's paint is already dirty white.

No matter what will be the truth behind that school's foundation, whether the story is real or not, I am confident that I'm secured. My faith is bigger than this.

Aside from this story, I would like to share one of my favorite ancient tourists' spot, Chichen Itza by Mayan Civilization.

Mayans are highly advanced and intelligent civilization, especially in terms of astrology, architecture and numerical system.

Just like other civilizations, Mayans also believed in god and goddess, and sacrificing someone's human body is sacred for them, and to perform this act they have this Chichen Itza as their power house. In some ways they do the act of sacrifices by laying down a person, where his eyes looking up in the sky, they will cut his chest and remove one's beating heart. On the other side, they have sacrifices in the form or painting blue color to someone's body before throwing into the well, or after they paint the body they will put some marks like in head and chest, and after shoot them using arrow.

There's a lot of form of sacrifices, not only about life or human sacrifices. We can have some sacrifices in love, education, work, decision making, etc; just make sure, that decision or person/s is worth sacrificing for.

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February 20, 2022

-Ling