The need to make sacrifices in exchange for more favorable weather: Does any of this sound familiar?
'In 1487, according to legend, Aztec priests sacrificed more than 80,000...By spilling the blood of human beings onto the ground, the high priests were, in a sense, paying their debt to the gods. If the blood would flow, then the sun would rise each morning, the crops would grow, the gods would provide favorable weather for good crops'