As brutal as it may be, I wonder if we have strong sense of the extent to which people 'believed' in all of it, and even the parents would have been 'proud' to

As brutal as it may be, I wonder if we have strong sense of the extent to which people 'believed' in all of it, and even the parents would have been 'proud' to offer their offspring as sacrifice. At very minimum, there must have been a very desperate cognitive dissonance at the image of one's child wreathing in desperation and pain. But the Conquistadors brought a lot of unsavoury and brutal authoritarian measures along with them. So I truly wonder what the locals might have thought about the New Religion, among all the other changes afoot. It must have been a weird time, like aliens who are a 'bit like us but different' landing in spaceships.