Throughout the history of humanity, cultures have had different ideals of beauty. The Maya admired people who “suffered” from crossed eyes, those who filed their teeth making them pointed like the Egyptians did, or those who distorted their craniums to make them noticeably elongated. Their sculpture and painting depicted the art of war in a stark and realistic fashion. In Aztec culture, portrayals of death, torture, sacrifice and frightening gods with animalesque features that would cause wonder and awe today stood, for Mexican art, as an aesthetic demonstration of pride and victory over defeated peoples. The appreciation of the person who witnesses it, taking into account the historical and social context based on a society's ideological values, is what beauty is all about. In these civilizations, the perception of beauty goes beyond mere aesthetic concept, transcending the earthly plane and touching on the divine.