I cannot believe you gave away the ending. You are the type of person I immensely dislike.
In order to defend Mel from his critics, the Mel's underlying theme had to be pointed out. Critics claimed that Mel was, among other things, a violence junky using Mayans to essentially make a slasher flick with no theme. I pointed out in my previous posts that Mel was making a point - that the Mayans represented the culture of death and the Spanish Christians arriving symbolized the culture of life - i.e. Western civilization, Christianity, and sanity. This is not a popular position among liberals. To bring out this point, the end of the movie had to be discussed and sums up my defence of Mel, where, inadvertently, Spanish Christians saved Jaguar Paws life.
When one is debating and defending the theme of the movie on Freerepublic - some parts of the movie may be exposed. I think I've shown part of Mel's motivation for making this movie - having a contrast between the Mayan culture of death and Western culture and Christianity.
Give HJA a small break...the trip (of the film) is worth any ending.