1. Commonalities in Religion
In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to the underworld realm of Mictlan. ... Sacrificing a person to the Aztec, warrior-god Huitzilopochtli was a way for warriors to move up in the social class hierarchy. ...
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