Kathleen Romero

I Left My Heart in Tenochtitlan:
Human Sacrifice in Aztec Society

Kathleen finds the lighter side to Aztec ritual murder. She uses Mircea Eliade's categories
to analyze ritual killing as a recapitulation of cosmogony, but then set forth her own theory
that the Aztecs regarded the body itself as the "center,"
explaining their gruesome obsession with the hearts of their victims.

Kathleen explains David Carrasco's notion that the human body is the "unifying nucleus" of the Aztec's cosmology.
From that premise she provides creative analyses of different views of time
and of sacrifice as a means of regeneration on both cosmic and personal levels.