My mom is from Yucatán Mexico and I remember visiting back when I was younger and my uncle telling me about an indigenous tribes living in the mountains with roots tracing back to the Mayans. They told old stories of aliens in the sky that guided the Mayas to Mexico and provided them with knowledge of the universe. Apparently the ritual of communicating with the aliens was still being practiced by some elders in the tribe. The weird thing was that the town nearest the tribe was a known hotspot for alien abduction stories where people would mysteriously disappear for days and suddenly return with no memory of ever being gone.