著者

高重 進

出版者

高松大学

雑誌

高松大学紀要 = Research bulletin of Takamatsu University (ISSN:13427903)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, pp.9-26, 2004-09-28

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The conception that the offerers have of the recipient helps determine the form of practise, therefore ritual slaughtering may be play a part of the sacrifice offerers, but whom does not believe it, the action may be regard as a killing. Most of the materials could be available through the both conceptive processes : some early chronicles expressed in the Nahuatl (or Aztec) language, old books of painting hieroglyphic inscriptions, reports of oral tradition submitted by the priest to the bishop and the Emperor, even if all their materials are translated editions. Therefore their is abundant informations available that allow the delve into the manner and the method of the remarkable sacrifices from the both point of view. The aim of this paper is to clarify, how Aztec people came to have their Aztec type of sacrifice, and what method were used in the practises, and finally to attempt to classify it under what category does their practise belong in the worldwide typology. The results can be summerized as follows. (1) many human sacrifices in Aztecs are usually considered to originate from ancient times, but the formal practise pattern in flourish stage are that '. priest slit open the chest, and take out his heart form it, then tumble down from the top of the ladder at the sanctuary. (2) The man who had philosophically justified and fixed as its formal sacrificial actions, was Tlacaelel, played an important role in its spiritual unification and solidarity of the Aztec society as a cosmogonst. (3) The author have made clear priviously the two categories in the worldwide point of view ; holecaust type and burial type, Celts and India the former, China and Japan the latter.The Aztecs can be considered of the third category,blood type.