Describe the rituals of bloodletting or human sacrifice in Mesoamerican cultures. For what reasons were these rituals practiced? How were these rituals represented in artworks or architecture?
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Human sacrifices were thought necessary to sustain the gods and maintain the universe in Mesoamerican cultures. Bloodletting was a central Maya practice, and almost every ritually important occasion was marked by it. Lintel 25 depicts a scene in which Lady Xoc pulls a thorn-lined rope through her tongue in the presence of Shield Jaguar himself. Here, she experiences the hallucinatory vision that was the purpose of the ceremony.
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