Andrew Schulz

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.

And so what I wonder is, were the Olmecs not trying to genetically breed people who looked like this?

And if you were born with ectodermal dysplasia... That gave you higher status.

It gave you higher status, and you were born with some kind of intrinsic power.

The thing on top of this is, there are all these things called were-jaguar alters.

If we can look up alter for Olmec...