[Jaded]

The tour guides in Costa Maya say the Spanish Priests singlehandedly destroyed the Maya culture. Everywhere. Also that stories of human sacrifice and cannabalism were all fabrications. Guess they’ll have to revise that.

[muawiyah]

The Spanish priests did burn a number of "books" leftover from the Mayan civilization. Apparantly there was no one around to explain the writing and we've only recovered that knowledge in the last 20 years.

The Mayans the Spanish met were but a shadow of their ancesters and their civilization.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The tour guides in Costa Maya say the Spanish Priests singlehandedly destroyed the Maya culture.

Partially true. The Spanish priests burned all of the Mayan books--thousands of them--only three survived. But no credible scholar disputes the blood sacrifice stuff. There are too many images of it painted on the walls to deny. Only the details can be quibbled about.