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The priest and Tucker both make a subtle but fundamental error here. By the priest’s own recounting, the demon told him that his power over the woman was from “pop” (soda). But in the United States, this isn’t made with sugar, it is made with corn syrup. Corn does not occur in nature. The Olmec bred it from a grass called teosinte in one of the most radical and unexplained transformations in the history of agriculture. The plant barely resembles its ancestor. Mainstream archaeobotanists still struggle to fully account for how it happened as fast as it did but there is a school of thought that suggests the Olmec obtained the knowledge to do this by communing with entities contacted through psychedelic rituals involving human sacrifice. Corn deities figure prominently in the religion of the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, and other groups in the Americas. Its derivatives are now in virtually every processed food product in America. When you consume it, you are partaking in it. It’s even in your gas tank thanks to the federal government’s ethanol subsidies and fuel mandate. When your car burns it, it leaves a cloud of the stuff lingering in the air like cursed incense.

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