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There were loads of other ways for Aztec kids to have fun.
An important historical record called the Florentine Codex records that Aztec boys had what sound an awful lot like pIlLoW fIgHtS with girls!
These would take place the day after a religious festival when boys would make sacks filled with wool or grass nets filled with flowers. They would hide them until they saw girls . . . and then give them a (very soft and gentle) WhAcK for fun.
I think you might be overreacting slightly.
Come back here and we´ll discuss it.
That would be a no.
Don’t worry girls – your Aztec counterparts didn’t just let this happen. They’d fight back by carrying a ShArP cAcTuS SpIkE and chasing the boys with the thorn if they were stupid enough to BoP them with a bag of flowers!
Hmmmm. Probably best sticking to snakes and ladders and tiddly-winks . . .
Do you ever wish . . . you were more musical?
Remember that time you gave the violin a go at school and the fire brigade arrived because they thought it was
an alarm going off? Well, perhaps you’re just trying the wrong instruments.
Have you ever tried playing a death whistle shaped like
a human skull? (We REALLY hope the answer to that is
NO, by the way.) The Aztec death whistle couldn’t really
be described as an instrument. It was possibly blown by warriors as they went into battle and it sounds like a zombie screeching in agony after standing on a piece of Lego. Not something that’s likely to appear in your school orchestra any time soon. Truly terrifying!
On a more pleasant note – literally – the Aztecs played instruments that are familiar to us. Music was a very important part of the civilisation as it was considered a gift from the gods.
death whistle
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