Reuben Arevalo

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Fall of the Ancient Maya · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

So they asked one of the local families to be in charge of church while they move out.

And hands were raised.

and a family got in voted or you know in charge of church and that family called the maya after the spaniards left to come to church and that was to destroy the church that's why right now you only see the foundation of the church a hundred years after this and missionaries to scout the areas to see how the churches were doing when they came here they were not happy because the church was destroyed so they told the maya well you have destroyed our church

you build us another church.

And these are the stones that you're gonna be using.

So they went and removed stones from post-classic buildings, you know, and said, hey, use the stones, build us a church.

And the Maya were building the church with those stones, but as they were building where the altar section would have been,

they were putting figurines that depicted their own gods in the wall so that with the mentality you know that if they came to church they would worship multiple gods not just one the way christianity was going so they put all these gods in the walls they finished the the altar section put a huge roof that roof you know and they were like wait a minute why are we doing this and that's the time they rebel

and they kicked the Spaniards out.

Once they kicked the Spaniards out, they came and ripped the walls again to get their figurines back, and then they put fire on the roof.

So they burned down the second church.

Yes.

I mean, put it to you this way.

The Mayans didn't really want the Spaniards and their religion here.

And also the Spaniards didn't find it appropriate for them to be here, not because of, you know, the way the Maya treat them or anything, but because what was their interest?

They were here for gold.

They're not going to find that here.

Well, that's what they claimed.

The Spanish claimed that this area was too swampy and it had too many mosquitoes and they couldn't be here.

Plus, the commanders in those days had a law.

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