Ed Calderon
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And a weird thing that I've also kind of like realized after just talking to people and going down there and kind of seeing some of the artifacts, a lot of the psychedelics that they actually took were self-harm and mutilation, bloodletting type activities.
A lot of the Aztec priests, you see the pictures of them pulling a cord with thorns through
their private parts, trying to, trying to, trying to invoke in them these, I don't know, visions.
Which is, which, which matched up perfectly with some of the Catholic views.
worldviews when they arrived.
When you look at a lot of the culture, specifically in Mexico, you see that they met kind of like a perfect culture.
Like they matched in a lot of ways.
When the Catholics arrived.
The Mexicans were venerating a mother goddess at a grotto area in Mexico.
That's where the basilica is.
They're calling these... Yeah, bloodletting.