Yeah, the Aztec princess etc. I love fantasy, but not too much someone else's to use in my own stories. Thanks anyway. I'll dive deep into more research. Were women really clothed like that?

muralist: If you portray a village scene, or even a group, most children wouldn't wear kaftans that hide their carbon except for the face. Men cut their penises to spill blood as a way of giving back some liveforce to the gods. Women often tore a thorny twig along their tongue to spill blood for the same purpose. Prisoners were sacrificed, youngsters were thrown into a pit filled with water untill they either drowned or started to see visions and yes, they were naked,...And the Spaniards (I live in Antwerp and have access to some etchings on what they did to citizens when sacking the city) were not that friendly either. Men and women were tortured in the name of religion and the holy mammon called "Gold", women were raped and killed, a whole culture was destroyed, books were burnt,...

And what's left of the past is stolen by either official musea who have little no respect for the heritage of the surviving "indians" as they are studying these cultures in the name of holy objectivity, or by private collectioners who only want to posess objects out of greed.
Like the North American "indians", but a few centuries earlier. (ever saw Soldier Blue or Dead Man? Must see!)

In my story, this will be touched with a light feather as I find any kind of violence gruesome and unworthy. But a bit of it is inevitable to understand the rest. Some images can never ever be posted here, and that's neither my problem nor my concern.

As for the story itself, I'll use the wisest words George Bush Senior ever spoke: "Wait and see!"

Message edited on: 04/20/2005 09:39

I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now I'll be mad. (Rumi)