>>2973036The prophecy said that Quetzalcoatl will return to take the Aztec king's throne [1] in the year one reed, [2] and that he will be a very pale man with a bushy beard.
[1] - the Aztec calendar is divided into 52-year blocks. So, a year one reed appears once every 52 years. What are the chances that 1519, the year when Hernan Cortes arrived in America, would be year one reed?
[2] - Aztecs were all red skinned and didn't grow beards (and could not grow a bushy one even they wanted to). Meanwhile Cortes sported a thick beard and was known to have very pale skin by his contemporaries. It's like if some guy ranomly said that Martians exist and that they all have purple skin and six fingers, and then Martians came and they did in fact have purple skin and six fingers.
(((Science))) says that Cortes just made up that prophecy to justify his conquest, but this "explanation" makes zero sense if you think about it for even a second. Are they trying to tell me that the injuns just fucking believed him when he told them a supposed Aztec prophecy that the Aztecs themselves had supposedly never heard of? Or are they saying that he made the entire thing AFTER the conquest? If so, then why the fuck would he even do that? For what? To legitimize his plundering of their gold reserves? Obviously no Christian man would give a fuck about some fucking pagan prophecies. Only the injuns themselves would. So the prophecy was clearly directed at them, and it was clearly used by him DURING the conquest. Which brings us back to the "they would obviously fucking know their own prophecies and he can't just make one up and expect them to believe it" point.