Olmecs

I don't know, man.

If I see a big stone face, it takes me to Olmec.

I see Olmec, I get ready for him to open his mouth and start quizzing me about history and mythology.

And it

never happens.

All I can remember is the temple at the end.

Well, no, there's so much more.

And then you get on the steps of knowledge where Olmec, a large talking statue head, speaks and tells you the story of that artifact.

beverage, not Mesoamerica.

As far as which cultures were using it first in Mesoamerica, some people want to say it's the Olmec.

There's also very old vessels from the Alua.

There's also these vessels from Paso de la Mada.

It is the location of an ancient population center around the hill.

So it's right there by Tres Zapotes, which is one of the, it's like the heartland of the Olmec, as I understand, right? So the Olmec and the Epi-Olemec center there.

You could sustain

a hundreds of thousands population of people for a few years, mind you, because they're gathering at Camorra from like 380 to 384 before the battle actually happened.

So

they're gathering there so you can sustain the population.

It does, speaking about the Olmec, right, it does correlate with Jaredite land northward geography in this model.

Yeah, a lot of

Another feature of Toltec religion was the worship of the sun's desk, which is reflected in various sculptures.

also these people are supposed to have invented pulque made from the fermented sap of the agave the reclining type of sculpture known as chacmul after the famous example found at chichen itza in northern yucatan may be a relic of a peculiar toltec cult in which drunkenness figured human sacrifice was another feature of the religion of the mexican highlands in contrast to that of the lowland mayas on the economic side toltic culture rested on the earlier archaic civilization but on the artistic and ceremonial side it was largely inspired by the mayas through the mediation of the zapotecs olmecs and totonacs but with new emphasis on certain aspects and several important innovations the language of the toltecs seems to have been essentially the same as that of the aztecs who succeeded them the toltecs made a radical departure in social policy in that they took to war an expropriation as a means of building up national wealth thereby paralleling somewhat ineffectively to be sure the political methods of europe and western asia there had been war before their time in central america but not apparently for aggrandizement the mayas and most other mexican and central american nations developed excess food supply which released many persons for the pursuit of art and science perhaps it was pressure of population upon food supply in an arid land that directed the toltecs towards tribute-taking at least the fact is reasonably clear that these people did embark upon a short-lived career of conquest and that they levied tribute of precious stones and precious metals and secured by the same means an augmented food supply There is confusion and reduplication in the lists of Toltec rulers, and only three great names in succession can be regarded as certain.

The Chinese have a tradition as well.

And in Mesoamerica, Olmec and Maya and Toltec and Aztec peoples had a system as well.

Now, whether you should call them astrology or I think that's probably a good general name.

You could argue about Mesoamerica because it's a little different, but a lot of their, the work that they did was based on planetary cycles.

I think that's the name of the city where the pyramids, some of the Mayan pyramids, they think they're Mayan or, you know.

But they're not, according to Billy Carson, that those signs are from the Olmecs that Thoth brought over with him.

And those pyramids Thoth built in Quasicotal can translate to city of Thoth, which is amazing.

Anyway, when Thoth went over there, he said he encountered hairy barbarians.

Um, well, I think a couple of reasons, possibly.

Um, Mexico, of course, has, um, for those of your listeners that are familiar, and I'm sure many of them are familiar with the sort of the ancient alien aspect, uh, or tie-in to Mexico, you have all of these, um, great civilizations that sprung up there, the, the Olmec and the Zapotec and the Aztec and the Maya.

Right.

And, uh, you know- Uh, civilizations that obviously had, uh, you know, a very perplexing level of technology and, and mathematic and, and, and knowledge of astronomy and different things like that.