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Bone Bloodletting Awls
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Bone Bloodletting Awls

These ritual awls (14th-16th cc.) were shaped from eagle and jaguar bones. In Mexica religion, nobles and priests pierced their ears, tongues, or limbs to repay the gods with blood, the most sacred offering. Acts of autosacrifice recalled the primordial sacrifice of the gods that brought the world and the sun into being, binding daily ritual to cosmic origins.
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