Hard to wrap a Whig interpretation around such widespread recent human past events. Human sacrifice and cannibalism were common in many prehistoric societies, notably Greece, Medea, and Judea, eg Abraham and Isaac, etc.
Not only did they sometimes sacrifice their own offspring, and animals, on a massive scale, but they also practiced cannibalism on them as well, presumably as part of the ritual itself, not as a separate unrelated act.
What do you think their reasoning might have been?
The article gives some clues. One obvious rationale would be hunger, for whatever reason.
Another reasonable explanation might bad royal and or priestly guidance.
But who now can say? Maybe it was at that time good guidance, given a state of affairs impossible now, or ever, to reconstruct.
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