Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.www.mexicolore.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1615arrow-down110
arrow-up1605arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.www.mexicolore.co.ukDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square42fedilink
Spartans were very similar.