The Spanish went out of their way to destroy any records that would allow the locals any advantage. They took these writings, glyphs akin to the hieroglyphs of Egypt and Ethiopia, to Spain with the same mindset of taking the statues and everything else that was gold and silver: to show off. The Madrid Codex was the exception they allowed.
The knot system of writing (quipus) has not been fully deciphered yet, so nobody really can say for sure if it’s for mathematics or something else or both.
Now that is a laugh … those “works of the devil” were taken as souvenirs, well hidden from the pious eyes of the clergy no doubt.
That’s an interesting way to look at things, given the amount of primary sources attesting to the Catholic priests efforts to preserve and decipher the Codices.
I think you’re confusing the Mayans and the Aztecs
Jesuits and the “others”.
Yes, I’m kinda mixing both, but the priests also didn’t make the distinction. It was all part of the identity they wanted to erase.
And I bet in the Philippines they did the same.
The Mayan civilization was long gone before the Spanish arrived.
You really don’t need to interject your reflexive European self-hatred into every thread. Regardless of your feelings about the Church much of our knowledge comes from their scholarly efforts and there’s no harm in acknowledging that.
That’s just gibberish. Of course they did. Assuming your ancestors are always evil is just as silly as assuming they’re always superior.
Being realistic about historical facts is not self-hatred. Whatever the Spanish unleashed onto the South Americans they suffered it first.
In deference to the OP. Were there Mayans in the Philippines?
No. But the history of both the Philippines and South America are very connected.
Did the Spaniards speak English in those days? They “ruled the world” then.
You’re right. Replace the text with “okay, ahora se ve nivelado?”
True. Both suffered the scourge of the Spanish who brought their diseases which included small pox and Catholicism. To be fair the Spanish were not alone in bringing these diseases to countries they took over by force.
…and the Spaniards brought back the ‘American’ syphilis to Europe…
I blame it on the sailors…
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