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#7 - Approaching the Aztecs - A Drunken Introduction

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Aztecs and the Confrontation With the Spanish

The Aztecs are so profoundly alien that it's very difficult not to be pulled into basic questions about what it means to be a human being. By the time you get up to the consciously held and outwardly spoken beliefs, it's like shaving a couple inches off the top of that thing. The differences between cultures, the things that really make cultures different, are far deeper an alien people's especially a culture is isolated and as profoundly alien as the meso americans are to us. i think these cultures are producing profoundly different kinds of human beings.

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