FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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Olmec
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Toltec
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Maya
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Aztec
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Inca
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Detailed explanation-1: -The jaguar’s formidable size, reputation as a predator, and its evolved capacities to survive in the jungle made it an animal to be revered. The Olmec and the Maya witnessed this animal’s habits, adopting the jaguar as an authoritative and martial symbol, and incorporated the animal into their mythology.
Detailed explanation-2: -The supernatural jaguar of the Olmec seems to have been associated with rain and fertility. The Great Jaguar, king of beasts in the jungles of Central America, was thus the ancestor of the royal human lineage through his role as rain-deity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their religion centered around eight gods: the Olmec Dragon, the Bird Monster, the Shark Monster, the Banded-Eye god, the Maize God, the Rain Spirit, the Were-Jaguar, and the Feathered Serpent. The Olmec had the first representation of the feathered serpent that would show itself in later mesoamerican cultures.