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Well if we check the facts... (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

The veneration was severely overblown. They heeded them as gods in the same way that I heeded my abusive father as a god. And albinos probably just kinda died to the Central American UV. They might have been perceived as cursed.