Cortez should be named a saint for crushing the devil-worshiping, human sacrificing animals that reveled in human suffering and blood.
I read the English version of Cortez’ account.
As they approached the city, they saw what they thought was a red mountain.
I was a pyramid...The red was blood from the sacrifices.
The Aztec’s own history records how many 10s of thousands on certain days the killed for their god.
He was far from a saint-more like just another monster from a different place-the Spanish were my ancestors-they were not nice people-I don’t think most Spaniards in Spain are nice people now. Cortez may have stopped the pagan human sacrifices-but he also brought the Spanish Inquisition to the new world to replace it. Cortez was in a feud with the governor of Cuba when he sailed to Mexico, for defying the gov’s orders, too. And that was before he took the 14 or 15 year old daughter of a Native chief who was an enemy of the Aztecs-she was supposed to be his interpreter, but he made her his mistress and impregnated her-a really nice guy...
The Inquisition used torture to a slow, terrible death to get rid of any “heretics”-that means anybody that said a wrong word to a priest, no matter who you were. They also taught the Native Americans several brand new methods of torture used in Europe that were slower and more agonizing than the cutting out of hearts, etc. There weren’t any nice people anywhere back then by our modern standards-brutal times...