Used in times of war
The Aztec's are well renowned for being a brutally viscous people. With their belief in human sacrifice, and war mentality, they were a culture feared my many. When I came across this video, I wasn't expecting the sound that this "Death Whistle" produced.
They would use it in times of war as a scare tactic to instill fear, and intimidate their adversaries. So, a small number of them wielding these whistles would sound like a huge army approaching. I could only imagine the shear fright that was felt by the opposing side, with hundreds or even thousands of Aztec warriors screaming toward you. Knowing that your potential fate was hanging in the balance. Heart pounding, hands sweaty, and the understanding of you may never see what tomorrow has to bring.
It truly was a strange\obscure time that humans were living in.
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Wow! This is really interesting!!
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Oh, what a most interesting post! I had never seen one here that talked about that. Did you know that this skull-shaped instrument is named after the god of the wind, Ehécatl? it is enough to listen to it once, a few seconds, to imagine what those who faced the Aztecs on the battlefield could feel firsthand, listening to dozens or hundreds of these instruments sound at the same time, producing a harrowing and tortured scream difficult to forget. The researchers explain that, in addition to serving for war, the Ehecachichtli was also used in mortuary rituals, as a way to accompany the deceased on his journey to the Land of the Dead.
It is to be supposed that the Aztec "sound engineers" went through trial and error until they were able to design a whistle that reproduced this eerie noise that seems to be a mixture between the screams of a cat in heat and under torture and those of a person who is being skinned alive.
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