Plausibility Check: Neo-Aztec Cult?

Hello all, I was just wondering what you folks thought the plausibility was of some sort of a fairly influential Neo-Aztec cult arising in 19th Century Mexico, with a POD after 1750? Or was the Christianisation too successful for any such an idea to become (reasonably) common?
 
It depends on what aspect of the Aztec religion you want. If you want a cult of people who want to do the whole aztec warrior thing that's one thing, but it's totally different if you people running around worship multiple gods.

If it's the latter you're going ASB due to Mexican's famous devotion to the Catholic faith.
 
It depends, I think, on where you want the impetus for such a movement to come from. It's more likely to come from the lower classes, so how much of a voice do they have with the mighty ITTL?
 
Shadowrun did it in our future, but it was part ASB due to this version of our world having magic, and more cynicaly, nation building bullshit for power.
 
There's a difference between Aztec and Maya, dude. The Maya of Chan Santa Cruz concentrated on the worship of the Cult of the Talking Cross, a religion that was a syncretized mixture of traditional Maya beliefs with a small amount of Roman Catholicism.


I know that America wasn't populated by some sort of Mayincatec civilization. But in my opinion having a functional native state on Mexican soil should be a good base for aný kind of Aztec restoration movements.
 
There's a difference between Aztec and Maya, dude. The Maya of Chan Santa Cruz concentrated on the worship of the Cult of the Talking Cross, a religion that was a syncretized mixture of traditional Maya beliefs with a small amount of Roman Catholicism.
The Cult of the Talking Cross actually came about later. If the Maya won in 1848, when they had their best chance, the cult would never have arisen and the Maya would go on practicing their hybrid religion without talking crosses barking orders at them.

In any case I don't see how this would help the chances of any neo-Aztec cults. That stuff was long gone, the most "Aztec" they ever went after the conquest was naming the country after them and putting a symbol from their legends on the flag. Mexica/Aztec culture doesn't seem to have been as deeply entrenched or resilient as Maya culture by this time.
 
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A religion espousing human sacrifice rising to prominence is not plausible. Voluntary blood sacrifice ("cutting" as a religious sacrament) would be fairly plausible among an underclass, but isn't going to gain traction among the army or landowners.
 
A religion espousing human sacrifice rising to prominence is not plausible. Voluntary blood sacrifice ("cutting" as a religious sacrament) would be fairly plausible among an underclass, but isn't going to gain traction among the army or landowners.
So no chance of rich upperclass folks kidnapping homeless people to sacrifice?
 
So no chance of rich upperclass folks kidnapping homeless people to sacrifice?

Not with the Catholic church still around, not at all.

I mean there might be some random insane bastard that decides to kill a hobo or something, but a return to the Aztec culture, for any real group of people... yeah... No.
 
I could have sworn I read an article on this forum about the Mexican drug cartels leaving human hearts and heads on shrines to Santa Muerte. Probably more of a warning but the article claimed they saw it as a patron of the drug cartels themselves. Its probably close enough. Some of those cartels are insane and bloodthirsty enough to roll with it possibly.
 

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I don't think any weird cult can be considered ASB. After all, IOTL there are any number of weird cults that defy common sense. Who would have ever imagined the development of Scientology, for example? These things sort of pop up out of nowhere.
 
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