The classic Maya were pretty bloody-minded. All that stuff about the, being stargazing proto-hippies that we were taught in the Sixties was rubbish. See the Bonampak murals. As historian Michael Coe observed, “I’d rather be captured by the Aztecs than the Maya. The Aztecs would only kill you.The Maya would kill you slowly.” Of course, the surviving Maya are almost certainly descendants of the farmers and laborers, not the ruling classes.
Our friend showed us pictures of a shop selling Catholic gear which was right next to a shop selling black magic items. These items included "monsters" stitched together from the body parts of different animals. He says the stench from the black magic shop was indescribable.
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