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Human Sacrifice or Debt Payment to the Gods? (Mexicolore)

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Mexicolore's article on nextlahualli, Aztec debt-payment offering, uploaded 2024-03-31, consulted 2026-08-13.

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Reliability Tier
2
Reliability tier 2, matching this atlas's existing precedent for the same publisher (source 47217): a specialist Aztec-studies education site whose pages compile named historians' published findings (here Alfredo Lopez Austin and Cecilio Robelo) rather than original unreviewed commentary.
Notes
Mexicolore's article on human sacrifice as debt-payment, uploaded 2024-03-31, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Nahuatl root ixtlahua, Alfonso de Molina's sixteenth-century dictionary translation as blood sacrifice, and Alfredo Lopez Austin's framing of nextlahualli as reciprocal exchange.
Citation
Author
Compiled by Ian Mursell / Mexicolore
Publisher
Mexicolore
Publication Year
2024
URL
https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/human-sacrifice-or-debt-payment
Source Type
reference article
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)

This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Practices, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
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