Ed Calderon
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And a lot of the Catholic side of things that came into this area just intermingled perfectly.
They were also talking about a god that— Look at those skulls in the corner right next to your cursor, Jimmy, in the middle there.
Where the capital of Mexico is right now, there's a big cathedral behind it.
There's the Templo Mayor, the major temple of the Aztec Empire.
And there's a lot of those types of symbologies around, just skulls, because that's where they would have the sempantli, I think it's called.
Sorry if I butchered the word.
They would have these racks of skulls on top of the pyramids, on top of their central pyramid, kind of displaying all of the people that had gone missing.
I've heard numbers of 50,000.
I have no idea how you would kind of figure out those numbers.
But you do get accounts of some of the Spanish conquistadors describing the smell that some of these pyramids had.
which if you were into a kill house like a like a slaughterhouse yeah this this this is a dark smell yeah it's like it's an uncanny and there's something about human tallow that i've also smelled and and blood that is very distinct i mean yeah we're monkeys and we probably have some genetic memory of what that smell is and it makes us want to run i guess um
And they describe the smell on some of these pyramids when they finally got into the city.
The city, don't get me wrong, the Aztec Empire, like the Spanish peasants coming off that boat were like awestruck of when they saw this city.
Like it had water coming into it.