Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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And she goes from that to sort of wife.
Then she and her husband become usurpers.
They usurp a kingdom.
They take over a kingdom.
Then she becomes a mother.
Then she becomes a sorcerer.
Then she becomes a warlord.
And she's probably the chief evidence that we have for the Maya practicing total war, where they go in and not just killing, not just going in and taking out enemy combatants and things, but burning villages, burning agricultural fields.
She's probably the...
She's one of the most brutal.
She has become one of the most brutal rulers that the Mai ever had.
But the way that they sort of show her doing this is women are probably not on the battlefield fighting.
Instead, she's actually conquering them with magic.
So she has other people fighting for her.
But whenever they portray her, she's like as this like badass sorcerer or sorceress, I guess.
Um, so she'll, she'll be standing there like, like the, like the woman that you saw in before with like a big bowl of bloodletting implements, but she'll be standing on like a defeated ruler, like standing on them, like the rulers, like on the ground, like battered and broken up.
And then she's like, just standing.
Uh, that would be, um, from the site of Naranjo.
Um, that's N-A-R-A-N-J-O.