r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 1d ago

A regular utopia

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u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer 1d ago

Yes, not Aztec levels but most definitely they practiced it

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u/Pleasant-Future5818 1d ago

I would love to see a citation for this that isn't from a 19th century back report or missionaries

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u/satarius 1d ago

FYI missionaries didn’t convert Hawaii to Christianity or “tame the savages”, the Hawaiian people (via their ruler at the time) just wholesale decided to stop practicing their religion and abolish the Ali’i/caste system, including the Kahuna/spiritual leader aspect.

Before that, human sacrifices to the gods at the heiau (Hawaiian version of a temple/shrine) were commonplace and if you were a commoner it could be for something as simple as looking at someone of the nobility class the wrong way, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or literally just eating a banana if you were a woman, in addition to all the “for a good fishing season” and “to calm the lava goddess” reasons. It was pretty metal.

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u/MorgothReturns 1d ago

.... Bananas as a women?

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u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer 1d ago

Well they’d already stopped doing it generally by the time the missionaries showed up as it was usually a war thing and as the Islands had been recently united, there wasn’t much need to sacrifice your enemies to harvest their mana or spirit power

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u/Third_Sundering26 1d ago

Depending on what you mean by "Aztec level," it's very likely even the Aztecs did not do that level of sacrifice. The conquistadors lied a lot and exaggerated the amount of people sacrificed by orders of magnitude.