The monsters were born long before the Conquest, in the indigenous cultures that populated and still populate the different regions of Mexico: Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Toltecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Tarascans, Totonacs, Otomis, Huichols, Tarahumaras, Yaquis, Coras...
Almost five hundred years ago, the Spanish conquerors arrived with their ideas and their weapons to impose themselves on the people who lived in these lands. Each group had its own rites and gods - often represented in the figure of a winged serpent - but all of this was crushed by the conquering monster: a military man on his horse, half man-half beast, who brought a new god and fired his gunpowder archers like a dragon's belch.
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