
#7 - Approaching the Aztecs - A Drunken Introduction
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The Origins of Polynesia
We've got to be dealing with a set of motifs that are almost unimaginably ancient, and yet held in mind by travelling human bands and societies as they make their way across the globe. For example, when you start getting out into polynesia, where there are no snakes, right? They've got this whole mythological cycle that has snakes various critical points. And now they live in polynesia D there's no snakes. The roll of the serpent was just swapped out with an eel. No big deal. So s i mean, these are connections that go way, way, way back. They're things that we share pretty much universally. And they speak to things that we
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