Cannibalism is the practice or act of feeding on individuals of the same species. Cannibalism can occur in both humans and animals of numerous species, although tribalism is more related to anthropophagy or human beings who eat their fellow humans. The origin of the expression "cannibal" comes from the time that the Spanish arrived in American lands, being surprised when they discovered that indigenous peoples used to eat human flesh, which resulted from some rituals and sacred ceremonies where the victim was offered as an offering. to their gods.
The etymological beginning of the expression is found in the Taíno languages. When Europeans appeared and found the Native Americans who were bloodthirsty, they named them after a Native American word that really suggested courage or daring.
According to the conquerors, the act of cannibalism was very common among the villages of native allies and opponents of Hernán Cortés in religious trances and after combats, for which it was also customary to carry salt to keep the enemy dead, so that the meat will last longer and can be returned with it to their villages and distributed among the family members. One of the indigenous peoples who habitually practiced cannibalism were the Aztecs.
Cannibalism has not been socially accepted as a conventional form of food support. In psychology, cannibalism is defined as the consequence of uncontrolled verbal and oral aggressive promptings, an antisocial event caused by lust for authority.
There is no single behavior or pattern that explains why this behavior is due. They can be manifested in correspondence with funeral rituals, as is often the case with the Yanomami of the Amazon. In most of these cases, it originates from the link with his tributes in which sacrifices of human beings were promised accompanied also with the ingestion of human flesh, as is placed in the writings of the chronicles of the linked Spanish conquerors with the Aztec or Mayan culture.
