HISTORY OF RITUAL KILLINGS History, poverty, and ritual killings Human sacrifice including ritual killings constitutes a component of culture with a considerable degree of antiquity. Sacrificing humans to local deities was particularly prevalent among such Central American ethnicities as the Aztecs, Toltecs, and Maya between 1200 and 400 B.C. Thus, for example, in 2020 some … Continue reading HISTORY OF RITUAL KILLINGS