Edit: Here is how the Mayans deformed their childrens' skulls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation#/media/File:Maya_cranial_deformation.gif
Eugenicist gonna eugenics.
Those tests are gonna be tainted. Damn Spaniards fucked the Mayans and turned them into Mexicans.
I believe the word you're looking for is "raped."
Now now, they were being civilised
Quite. Cultured even
Can someone do what's being suggested, and immediately report back to that person who appears to know something, but needs someone from the audience to do all the proofing!
I don't think it's necessary since the Mayans artificially deformed the skulls of their infants. We know how.
it would be great to have this in the body of your post (I was reading the text in the picture and could not understand).
Added.
I would, but there are no Neanderthals from 30k years ago. Cro magnon was basically a modern human, with a modern human skull shape (at least, to me, who knows very little about skulls)
I know it's just the moral relativist in me saying this, but man that's not like super cool.
It's practiced in many cultures throughout the world, and it doesn't seem to hurt the kids or cause them major psychological issues, it just makes their skulls a weird shape.
Considering some of the extremely painful body modification practiced on children in some cultures, I'd call this pretty mild comparatively speaking.
It really was done everywhere. And relatively recently, even in Europe. Here's someone who had it done to them in France in the age of photography.
it doesn't seem to hurt the kids or cause them major psychological issues
Wow, surprising.
Overall, better, worse, or equal to circumcision?
Bear in mind that I'm 100% against circumcision, but, at least in Judaism, it happens within the first week when the brain is about as unformed as it can be but you still be alive and out of the womb, so it probably doesn't cause a lot of inherent psychological problems when you're talking about the process itself. I'm sure that knowing that you look different from other men because of something that could have been avoided might take a psychological toll on some people. It never bothered me, but I would never do it to my own son if I had a son.
Good points. And good on ya!
Isn't that the lion from the wardrobe?
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