The “indigenous peoples” across the world (especially in the Americas) seem to all universally have tales of “White People” that inhabited the land before them.
This has been debunked multiple times.
For example, the Inca/Maya (I forget which) that naively greeted the conquistador psychos thinking that they were the benevolent white demi-gods of their legends.
So you conflate the Inca and the Maya, two very different tribes, and then you spread misinformation. Mesoamerican people were obsessed with cleanliness, when they met the conquistadors they brought incense because they smelled so bad. Of course they must have seen themselves as gods when the mesoamerican people tried to make them bathe.
A legend can be shat out on a whim for all sorts of reasons…
I’m referring to primary sources, mainly being codexes that weren’t burned or destroyed. You’re just regurgitating propaganda. If all mesoamericans thought the Spanish were gods then there wouldn’t have been countless wars and resistances against them. It’s lazy historical revisionism.
That’s perfectly possible, have limited time to research.
No offense but I just find it lazy, and the things you claimed are common propaganda that even anthropologists know as false.
History is really really dark when you get past the propaganda.
Yeah, like how disney turned the trafficking, enslavement, and child rape of the real Pocahontas/ Matoaka into some uwu romance.
@GaryPaulWood I didn’t major in it or anything but most of my focus was in Mesoamerican anthropology, I’m also familiar with what a few tribes believe due to my proximity and connection to the land.
@GaryPaulWood it depends on who you’re specifically referring to. I have friends whose relatives were medicine women back home. My father considers my grandma a healer as well.
@Leaflord @GaryPaulWood @teratology this whole thread is just like, a funny bit because it's spooky season, right?
Do you want to get really spooky?