>>39834345As somebody actually into ancient latin american history that's BS; it's as bad as black WE WUZZING
For example, you only see "Montezuma thought Cortes was a god" stuff accounts and records pretty decently into the colional period, by which point Catholic themes and ideology had been mixed into indigenous theology by both Spanish friars (as a way to make conversion of people easier) and by native nobility (to make their own history and religious practices seem more palatable to europeans). An example of the latter is how in accounts about Nezahualcoyotl, the most famous king of the city-sytate of Texcoco, by Fernando Ixtlilxóchitl, a desecdent of the Texcocoan royal family; he claims that Nezahualcoyotl rejected human sacrifice and worshipped a singular monpothestic god, when from other sources we know that's BS
In particular, Quetzalcoatl (and the Toltec king Ce Acatl Topiltzin, who is often associated with him and the myths and stories about him and Quetzalcoatl are often interchangedable/mixed up) became associated with Jesus, while other dieities and supernatural figures were associated with demons and satan. Beyond this, another thing that bolsters this sort of psuedohistorical info is that Quetzalcoatl was known as the "White Tezcatlipoca", alongside Xipe Totec (Red Tezcatlipoca), Huitzilopotchli (Blue Tezcatlipoca), and Tezcatlipoca (Black Tezcatlipoca); these each representing a specific cardinal direction, the aforementioned color, etc. The colors in question weren't the literal colors of the skin of the god: Huitzilptochli did have blue painted skin and Tezactloipoca had yellow and black painted skin. but Xipe totec merely had red clothes, and Quetzalcoatl isn't ever depicted with white skin in codices to my knowledge, usually instead green, blue, a greyish green, etc. The closest to "white" i've seen is a pale grey/charchoal
See also pic related which explictly debunks the "Montezuma told cortes he thought he was a returning white god"
