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The Vanilla Legend from Papantla, Mexico

The Vanilla Legend from Papantla, Mexico

by the illustrious Papanteco diplomat José J. Núñez y Domínguez When the Totonacs, the most artistic race of pre-Columbian America after having sculpted the marvelous stone ornamentations of Teotihuacan, decided to settle on the coasts of today's State of Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico, they still did not practice human sacrifices.Pantheists by temperament, lovers of beautiful and delicate things, they worshipped the sun, the wind, the water and the earth and their offerings to the Gods consisted of bouquets of flowers and incinerations of "Copal". In holocaust they killed some wild animals, but they adored the birds, especially those...

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