Dominic Sandbrook
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I think we can guess, given the Spanish behavior earlier in the last episode, exactly how badly behaved they are with the women of the temples.
Yeah.
I know, and there's only three of them.
Insane, isn't it?
And the mad thing is, Kiskis says, okay, fair enough.
And his men fetch tools so that these Spanish guys with crowbars can take these giant gold plates off the walls of the temples.
Yeah, maybe.
I mean, I think the fact that he's a northerner definitely is a factor and he's commanding an occupying army.
But even so, he's part of the Inca world.
He believes in the cult of the sun.
He's part of that cosmological ecosystem.
But they tear it all down.
So these great plates, they're about two and a half feet long.
They weigh five pounds each.
They're beautifully decorated, we're told, with images of trees and flowers and things like that.
Solid gold.
The Spaniards tear it all down.
They get hundreds of porters to carry it back.
Of course, no wheels, no carts in Peru.
God for llamas.