Andrew Schulz

Well, we found those stelae

uh in the in the jungles or like in the ruins of the city of la venta and then they found this cashier and what this cash is showing is these were jaguar people walking in front of a stele in like a uh in a in a procession some kind of ancient ritual it's like a screenshot of their world but we don't obviously we don't know the context or understand what's going on here but the point i'm getting across is that the olmec heads themselves which always depict normal looking men

are vastly, vastly outnumbered by the amount of artifacts that depict people with werejaguar features.

And so what I start wondering here is, well, my first thought was, okay, this is a whole different class of people.

You clearly have kings that never look like werejaguars, and you have all of these werejaguar people who are, they're like priests or something.

They're like involved in the shamanic realm.

And so I started wondering,

are there people being born with deformities in their world?

Is this some kind of deformity that they revered and that gave you the right to be a part of the priestly class?

So I started looking into mid-1900s Veracruz, Mexico, which is the heart of the Olmec world.

And in the 1970s, there was one medical survey done

that showed that a disproportionate amount of indigenous kids had what's known as ectodermal dysplasia compared to... These were kids that were in small villages in Veracruz, not living actually in the city of Veracruz.

And what ectodermal dysplasia is...

It is a disability that does not come with a learning disability.

So you're still fully there, but it's a complete dental disability where you don't grow any teeth in your gums other than two fangs right here.

Look up ectodermal dysplasia fangs.

Do that.

So look at that.

So kids would be born like this without a learning disability, and it would look like

they had the teeth of a jaguar of some kind.