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by boublepop 1691 days ago
Care to elaborate on your comment to those who are not in the know? Did the Aztecs not burn scripture? I don’t know much about Mayan and Aztec history and culture, but I visited Yucatán recently and it sounded from guides like there was a lot of original Mayan culture lost in the mixing of the two. I was also told, but don’t know if it’s true, that the human sacrificing was actually an Aztec practice that got introduced in the mixing and not an original Mayan practice.
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They are attempting to imply I am trying to whitewash the Spaniards. I am not, I am pointing out Aztecs erased history to create their own imperial narrative too although not on scale of Spaniards to Maya