Wait, if Aztecs thought white people are gods (unless it’s a “Television would never lie” moment), do we have records of how they treated albinos born in their countries?
It wasn’t just pale skin. Honestly look at a picture of a Spaniard, and then look at a picture of a Mesoamerican. It’s not exactly night and day, is it?
“The Spanish showed up and the natives thought they were gods.” So, the natives had myths and folklore about their gods going away across the sea and would someday come back from across the sea. And then one day these big boats show up and what wades ashore but a man with strangely pale skin and strange colored eyes and a big bushy beard wearing metal armor and carrying metal weapons riding some kind of big hoofed animal. He’s speaking a weird language you don’t understand and HOLY SHIT did he just shoot thunder from that metal stick? Something like eighteen things you haven’t seen before just happened.
What do you think was their first hypothesis?
How long do you think it took for them to test that hypothesis?
The veneration was severely overblown. They heeded them as gods in the same way that I heeded my abusive father as a god. And albinos probably just kinda died to the Central American UV. They might have been perceived as cursed.
The Aztecs did not view the white men as gods. Depictions of Quetzalcoatl that make him look like a white man/the claim that they confused Cortes for him is pseudohistory based on Spanish depictions and lies.
Here’s an interesting thing I found on ancient Mexican albinism.
Glad you have a resource to refute this colonial era drivel / brain rot.
It’s something that Frank Dibble talked about in the Rogan debate. (The entire situation was a shitshow, but I learned a lot from listening to him dribble Hancock around like a basketball, and Professor Dave/Miniminutemen’s coverage of it)
Aztec and Mayan history tends to attract a lot of bullshit (and tend to be treated as interchangeable 😔). The Spaniards burned so much of pre Colombian primary texts that most information is filtered through people who wanted to portray those people as stupid primitive murderous psychopaths to justify their own primitive murderous psychopathy.
Ooh, nice find!
i mean, world history as of ~500-600 years ago, but yea
Half of Disney movies are about kids going against this very parental advice, getting said parents robbed/hurt/killed, and getting rewarded in the process
American leftists and their guilt complex were once funny, but now shit is getting stale.
Where my Clovis people at?
Recent world history, at least.
Yeah, this is giving of some serious “i have never read a book in my life”-energy.
Did the world start 300 years ago?
Europeans figuring out how to navigate the deep sea before others starts centuries before then.
Ah yes. The history of the world certainly started with Europe.
The history referenced in this meme starts with the European ships being able to navigate the deep seas.
The post I replied to makes a comment about 300 years which would be well after the history referenced in this meme
When home is relatively cold and only borderline habitable, taking your chances with going out to sea is an understandable instinct.
Ghengas Khan, the whitest man in history
Well of course, they wouldn’t have picked John Wayne to play him otherwise.
Kahn of the radiation desert.
Man, Hutus and Tutsis are going to freak out with this one haha
Also Indians
Everyone knows the Comanches were nothing but peace loving kindness and happy joy.
Turns out you can’t simplify world history to one sentence without people getting big mad.
they sound american
