Andrew Schulz
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So there are thousands... Oh, wow, there's a lot of drawings here.
Let's do... If you put the word jade behind it... So this will bring up... There we go.
So any one of these will do.
So there are thousands and thousands and thousands of these examples of these artifacts of people who are were-jaguars.
And you can tell that they're people with the anatomical features of a large cat.
Is that wrong to say that?
Mesoamericans, they are Asian.
They're Asiatic in general.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, actually...
All of the Olmec gold actually came from that Maya city I was telling you about with those giant pyramids that began at the beginning of their time at El Mirador in the middle of the jungle.
That was how El Mirador got so rich was the jade quarries that were nearby and they were selling them to the Olmecs.
And so they were using that money, the Maya were using that money to build up their civilization.
Now...
What's really interesting about the Olmec realm and what got me thinking about this idea of people being born with deformities and this maybe having something to do with that.
Could we look up Olmec baby statues?
So there are all these statues of Olmec babies that you can tell are not anatomically normal children.
They're children that are... I don't know if they're...
Yeah, the one that's on the right at the bottom.
Yeah, with the blue background.