Mayan elites were not obsessed with spilling blood as a way of honor rulers and ancestors as well as gods.
In Maya culture the offering to the gods was done by sacrificing a living creature. The Mayan believed that blood was the nourishment for their deities, so the most powerful offering is by spilling blood. In fact, human sacrifice was the most important ritual in Mayan culture. Who were sacrificed? High status prisoners of war. They performed this human sacrifice in the period span from AD 250-900 to the Spanish conquest in the 17th century. This sacrifice can be seen as depiction in the classic Maya art.
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