Monomaniacal Fervor

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Jul 12, 2023 · 16m

Every now and then, I have one of those… moments when I think to myself, “Is that really what I mean when I say that thing?

Many anthropologists and archeologists bemoan the fact that we have little understanding of the Yucatan peoples of the pre Columbus era. But you almost never hear a discussion of WHY we lack that understanding. As it turned out, the Mayans were quite literate and wrote down much of their history and theology in various forms.

But… as you know… people with a different god and a different belief system came to the Yucatan in the 16th Century.

And, on July 12, 1562, an man…