[sammalloy]

This is my thinking as well. There are surviving remnants of pre-Columbian pharmacopoeia for the Maya, Aztec, and Inca, as only three examples. I wonder if the ingredients and instructions for the brew were previously recorded in a similar manner, but then reduced to an oral tradition once religious people like Diego de Landa showed up and started burning anything that might have challenged the new gods.

[Guthur]

Non of these actions are uniquely European or religious.

You'll find similar outcomes throughout history and the world. Whether it's nationalism, communism, religion, tribalism or what ever. Us and them dynamics are constantly being created and exploited by various groups throughout our collective history.

[sebmellen]

FYI I don't think you're getting downvoted because anyone disagrees, just because it's off topic.

No one said such actions are uniquely European or religious.

[Guthur]

The two ancestor posts seemed to imply it a little. But granted I should not have engaged with it as it was straying so far from the topic.