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[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Glad you have a resource to refute this colonial era drivel / brain rot.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ooh, nice find!

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

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.

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