Yeah, this comment about the mass destruction of Mayan texts actually reminds of me of something I read in another one of the codices, the Florence one. It wa

Yeah, this comment about the mass destruction of Mayan texts actually reminds of me of something I read in another one of the codices, the Florence one. It was a little prologue that the monk wrote to justify its preservation. I don't have it in front of me so I'm paraphrasing, very roughly, but it quoted a catholic scholar (I don't remember who, maybe even a saint) and used that quote to argue that to fight the devil and save their souls they must know the devil's work. I thought it was interesting and it seemed to me like the author/editor of this codex knew what was needed to be said to justify the creation of that text, in a political climate like the one above. Even in those times people had to navigate a bureaucracy and play politics to do what they thought was the right thing in the name of humanity and intellectual curiosity. I believe many of these catholic priests were serious scholars, but they still had to be careful about what was put in writing and how it may be used against them by their enemies and competitors within the church.