Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

You know, plant medicines like ayahuasca and mushrooms were released over the past 50, 60 years is 'cause they knew this was coming.

Like, the Q'ero were up in the mountains since the Cordis- um, the, the Spanish came, and they hid and basically kept all their teachings for, like, 500 years.

And then one day they're like, "Oh, nope, it's time to come down the mountain.

It's time to share all this information." I've seen that with a lot of other tribes too, um, Native American tribes here in the States were starting to do it.

So obviously they had to bring anything with them that has still survived today.

And also previously during the Spanish conquest, Maranth was actually banned in huge parts of what's now South America because it was a religious symbol, yes, but also just so central culturally that you know, a way to control a people is to sever them from their culture.

So it was banned.

And then you'd be severely punished for growing amaranth or eating amaranth or performing any sort of religious rituals with it.