No way those primitive, backward brown people ever come up with anything themselves.
We do call the Tula statues “atlantes” but, guess who gave them the new nickname? Europeans 🤡
In grade school, the teachers didn’t care about the content of our essays. They only cared about structure, grammar, spelling, etc. Which meant that most kids would restate the same thing fifteen times using slightly different words each time–not making a case by providing multiple arguments or pieces of evidence, just rehashing the same statement over and over. One of my teachers referred to it as “verbal diarrhea.”
That there is some watery-ass verbal diarrhea.
Male shaped columns are called atlantes or telamones. Female shaped columns are caryatids.
Actual footage of these archaeologists at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRE0FSU2qA
