Potential methods include: the organ removed below the rib cage, cutting through the thorax to open up the chest cavity, or breaking through the rib-cage (Tiesler and Cucina 2007:494). No specific accounts have been left of how this procedure takes place, therefore it is unknown how the skeleton would reflect this behavior.
Cut marks and fractures should be visible on the rib cage or spine, though these would depend on the time and method of extraction. Tiesler and Cucina (2007) argue that ritual removal of the heart should be visible on human remains. Mayan blood letting sacrifice on inscription, via Wikimedia Commons Burial with a lack of grave goods, differences in grave location, and burial of a distinctive demographic group, such as all young males, are thought to be indicative of sacrifice or ritual behavior. Mayan art from this period also depicts removal of the hearts of children at the accession of a new king or beginning of a new calendrical year.ĭespite the knowledge that acts like these occurred, archaeological evidence of sacrifice has primarily been based on context rather than physical changes to the skeletal remains. The heart would be presented at a temple idol as a way to pacify the gods. During the Maya Classic period there is evidence from historic accounts and inscriptions that ritual heart removal occurred during periods of crisis.
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Ritual heart extraction is not just a movie stunt to shock audiences, there is actually ethnohistoric evidence for the practice. Or for a less serious version, there is the scene from ‘Dumb and Dumber’ where Jim Carey removes a ninja’s heart and hands it back to him in a doggy bag. The high priest Mola Ram removes the heart of a sacrificial victim with his bare hands as a way to pacify the god and gain the power to rule the world. Another good movie example of heart removal is ‘Apocalypto’, where the Mayan elite remove the hearts of the defeated warriors in order to pacify their gods. Exploring the village’s palace, they find underground tunnels that reveal that an ancient cult to Kali.
After unsuccessfully escaping a gang of Shanghai thugs, Indiana, Willie and Short-Round find themselves stranded in Mayapore, a village in Northern India. If you’ve watched through the ‘Indiana Jones’ series, you probably have a very distinctive memory of the ‘Kali-Ma’ scene from the ‘Temple of Doom’. Heart Removal Scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Tomb, via Tumblr and Benedictus Antonius
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