...what happened to the other blue painted villagers once the hunting party took off after Jaguar Paw? And what happened to all the children left behind in the village, once Jaguar Paw returned?
Just asking.
The warriors probably killed the rest of the captives right before going off with the head warrior to go after Jaguar Paw.
I too wondered what happened to the kids. I don't think they went back to the village or they would have found the lady in the hole. It's morbid to say but unless Jaguar Paw found them after the end of the movie, they probably died. They were children, and half of them appeared to be very young children at that. The older girl probably only knew how to gather plants..possibly prepare an animal for cooking but none of them knew how to hunt.
I don't believe your hypothesis is correct about the warriors. I don't believe there was enough time for them to kill all the villagers between the time Jaguar Paw broke loose and they all high-tailed it after them. I would rather believe this was a plot hole, and eventually they all went back to the village (and contracted polio from the Europeans. 😄).
shareThere were more warriors than what we saw in that scene of the movie. I'm sure one of the Warriors quickly called for backup and then went running with the others to kill Jaguar Paw.
shareI believe the girl would have known how the trap small animals as well as fish in some limited ways and know what plants (and maybe things like the bugs and worms that they eat on Survivor?) to eat and how to prepare them. Not experienced, but she'd know the basics. Certainly some of the little ones would be lost to animal predation or snake bites, etc, but she ought to have been able to feed them enough that they could grow large enough to care for themselves. Just as a city kid knows where the market is, she'd know where her mom collected food. When warriors were away on big hunts for days, the mothers would have trapped or shot birds and small animals to feed the tribe.
To the poster below, polio? That was a 20th-century epidemic. Europeans brought smallpox, venereal diseases-(syphillis) and perhaps influenza strains? I never heard of them bringing polio to Mayans or other Native Americans.
Syphillis was something that was unknown in Europe and was a product of coupling, (forced or otherwise) with Native Americans.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Samuel Beckett
And what happened to all the children left behind in the village, once Jaguar Paw returned?For whatever reasons, they don't see to be around. You can't imagine Jaguar Paw and his family abandoning them if they were still around the village.🐭 share
I had the same thought about the kids. Their village is likely the only home they've ever known, so it seems likely they would have returned to it. Better a familiar, albeit burned and partially destroyed village than just wandering the forest. Perhaps they went to find their elders? In the beginning of the film they have a ceremony with the elders of their tribe at a different location than their village.
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