I think I want to do a deep dive on Spanish conquistador exploits. Just sailing off with some of your bros and collapsing the Incan Empire for fun. Can't even imagine.
Are you even cone pilled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation >The Inca nobility practiced cranial deformation.[62] They wrapped tight cloth straps around the heads of newborns to shape their soft skulls into a more conical form, thus distinguishing the nobility from other social classes. cc: @mono
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_Room >The total collection of the gold, after being melted down into standard ingots, and before division amongst the Spaniards, amounted to 1,326,539 pesos de oro, worth 15,500,000 in 1847 U.S. dollars. This equates to nearly half a billion dollars in today's money. Spanish chads robbing the Incans of half a billion dollars and then just garroting their Emperor to death in public and taking over. It doesn't get more badass than this.
I don't feel all that bad about the Inca getting pwned. People will say oh the Spanish are mean, but how do you think the Sapa Inca created his empire in the first place? Doing the same shit as the Spanish. I'm not really that keen on their practice of child sacrifice either, but at least they were slightly more humane than the Aztecs.
A part of me wanted to try and be contrarian and defend Inca child sacrifice on the grounds of mysticism and Evola spookiness, but this is one area where I can't be ironic and have to say that they were totally wrong and retarded. Entombing kids in a volcano will not grant you a bountiful harvest.
>Inca mummies were seen as possessing agency, not really alive nor dead, more of an animated death. Terence D'Altroy said that, “royal mummies ate, drank, visited one another, sat at council, and judged weighty questions.”[19] Mummies participated in ceremonial roles that allowed them to be consulted as advisors in times of distress. Originally kept on royal estates, the descendants eventually thought that by staying in his own house, a mummy could be better served and watched over. The mummies played such an important role in politics that there are instances of mummies being married. One such story is that Washkar had his mother marry his father's mummy in order for him to receive a legitimate ruling claim.[5]
@augustus "Rogelio Guanuco, the leader of the Indigenous Association of Argentina (AIRA), called the display "a violation of our loved ones", saying that "Llullaillaco continues to be sacred for us. They should never have profaned that sanctuary, and they should not put our children on exhibition as if in a circus.""
🤔 Argentine police might want to search this dude's basement
@goatmeal She's right. I agree with her. We need to abolish government funded science along these lines and replace it with black magic voodoo disco rituals
@augustus@thendrix Kind of leaves out some important historical details, like after the break up of the USSR, we promised NOT to advance NATO more Eastward than Germany. The situation we put Russia in by doing this is no different than when they put nuclear missiles in cuba.