u/Comfortable_Cut5796

By Dr. EdBarnheart

Any tips would be great tbh!

I feel a bit estranged of my Mexican and Yaqui roots, but especially my Yaqui roots.

I think it would be cool to learn the language sometime, I’ve heard they have books on how to learn Cahita.

Idk where to start 😅

Obviously, this is an extremely broad question, but I was hoping to get a few thoroughly explained examples of how such encounters usually went when people from societies without a writing system, or with a writing system too different from the one being introduced (such as the quipu), reacted to and perceived the newly introduced writing system. I was inspired to ask this after learning about how Atawallpa allegedly reacted to being given the Bible by the Spaniards before the ambush as an ultimatum, although I am not sure how accurate that story is. In any case, it is just one example, whereas I am looking for broader societal responses. How did these encounters generally go from the perspective of the societies encountering the new writing system?

In my head, it's basically "Stand By Me" with bored Homo erectus teens from a small cave seeking adventure. They just headed north up the Asian coast and never turned back, across to Alaska, down the west coast of North America. Not a population, just a dozen friends exploring the world.

But that's just my (incredibly poor) imagination at work.

What's your headcanon?