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I visited Chichen Itza in a guided tour. The guide was a local Mayan man. He led us to a structure which had reliefs of people. One of the people had trimmings
by cardiffspaceman 5y ago
I visited Chichen Itza in a guided tour. The guide was a local Mayan man. He led us to a structure which had reliefs of people. One of the people had trimmings around his face. The guide stated that this was a man's curly beard, and that in the past this relief had been polychromed, and the color used on these trimmings was red. And as if we couldn't make the required extrapolations on our own, he said that the relief indicated that Mayans had known/may have known of Eric the Red. I don't know of other evidence that Mayans of old had direct or indirect pre-Columbian contact with curly-haired explorers from Europe. It's just that your query triggers this reminiscence.