Dr. James Fitzsimmons

There was this real bastard named Diego de Landa, who he was recalled back to Spain for being cruel to the indigenous folks in Yucatan.

You're getting recalled during the Inquisition.

Like, it's really bad.

Like, you got to be really bad to get recalled back to Spain for the Inquisition, right?

So he gets recalled back to Spain.

And as part of his legal defense, he sort of, oh, I wasn't really being bad to them.

I was just studying them.

And look at all this information that I gathered.

And so one of the information things that he gathered was he got this Maya scribe to write down what he thought was the alphabet in hieroglyphs.

Now the Maya didn't have an alphabet.

They didn't.

And so he was asking the scribe, you can imagine him asking the scribe being like, I want you to write down like, and the scribe being like, we don't, okay, I guess.

And it kind of tries to do it, right?

There's a section of the thing too, that we don't know what he asked the scribe to do.

And more recently we've deciphered what it says on there.

And what it says is, I don't want to.

We don't know what he was asked to do, but he wrote down, I don't want to on there.

And what is the name of this, this stellar?

No, it's a, it's a, it's a text.

It's the, the, um,