The legend of the Aztec Jaguar Warriors
<p>You probably might recognize this face. He is<em> Zero Wolf</em>, the Mayan chieftain, a character played by Raoul Max Trujillo in the movie<em> </em><strong><em>Apocalypto</em> </strong>(<em>2006, dir. Mel Gibson</em>). Zero Wolf is most probably a <strong>Yucatan Mayan</strong> who sets out to hunt men for an eventual human sacrifice, seen here wearing a costume of a wolf skull over his head. He has a wooden club with something studded on either sides of it. Tattoos run on his chest, hands and legs. The armor is made of thick animal skin and bones — ornate with jaw bones— possibly human. But is this how the Mayans and Aztec warriors looked like ?</p>
<p>Though there are some critical historical inaccuracies when it comes to costumes and the depiction of mass human sacrifices by the Mayans in the movie — (mass human sacrifice was more of an Aztec ritual<em> )</em>— it (the movie) does go into depths to pay attention to lot of detail even to the depiction of the weapons and the tattoos.</p>
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