What? You need to get with the narrative, man.
These were sympathetic “native defenders” who cared not for the gaudy baubles of European materialism. They threw the jewelry and spurs into the wells with total indifference. Instead they were a musical people who fashioned a musical intrument from a horse’s rib, which became a cherished item. It was their “amazement” when faced with unfamiliar races and animals that caused them to symbolically decapitate, sacrifice, mutilate, and “apparently” (because it would be judgmental to say for sure) eat their captives.
They were simply speaking their unique cultural truth to conquistador power. Tbis was a moment of indigenous “resistance” when they momentarily turned the tables on their imperialist, and no doubt supremacist, conquerors.
TRANSLATION:
Get into my time machine and drop five nukes on these inbred aztec demons. Then go further back in time to Arabia-Mecca-Medina and drop five nukes on Mo-Ham-Head and his armies