What Ed Barnhart thinks about religion
Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center, specialising in the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, South America and North America.
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3 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Ed Barnhart has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI think religion in South America began in the Amazon. I think there were people there, very old. Actually, the earliest pottery in all of the Americas, all these places that we have civilizations that grew up, you know where the oldest pottery is? The middle of the Amazon.
↗Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446youtube.com 7th of 25 in this recording
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Their wordsBut he is the one creator deity, in my opinion, through all of these cultures. And the people in the Amazon still talk about him there. His name is Viho Masse in some groups, but they say that his emissaries on earth are the jaguars and that he is the creator deity.
↗Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446youtube.com 8th of 25 in this recording
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Their wordsIn fact, strangely, the majority of plants that are actually psychotropic, not just mood altering, are from here in the Americas. There are very few drugs that will make you hallucinate outside of the Americas.
↗Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446youtube.com 9th of 25 in this recording