@Toastie Maybe folks entrenched in a European linear time concept have a hard time bending their minds around Indigenous cyclical time. Indigenous story telling often doesn’t have a beginning or end, it wraps around itself. It can give a view from the inside and the outside simultaneously. ‘Time immemorial’ fits in that landscape.
When Cortez entered Tenochtitlán, he had never seen anything anywhere that could match it for beauty & sophistication. A year later, he destroyed it.
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Schools have long taught that humans populated North America around 12K yrs ago by crossing the Bering land bridge.