We don't know. We lost them as a result of natural consequences.
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Have you heard about the person leaving the village in which everyone dies? Me neither.
Is this a trick question? I mean the answer is in "pre-christian " and "natural consequence". The " conquista" answer to both for example.
Having the Spanish show up with armor, horses, and some weird book naturally has a detrimental effect on your mythology.
But, most of the (at the time of the conquista) conteporary prehispanic mythologies (late post classic period) were not completely lost, we know quite a bit about them, actually. even some spaniards attempted to preserve and study that knowledge (church folk). A lot of it , predominarily mexica lore and traditions got incorporated into catholicism in a process known as syncretism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
We did lose tonnes of artifacts (gold and silver stuff), art, and architecture, though.
So I'm gonna specifically suggest the Teotihuacan civilization that existed during the mesoamerican classical period. They predated the mexica people (aztecs) but their temples and other vestiges of their culture were found by the aztecs and incorporated into their own mythology.
Still to this day, we don't know much about them.
Exactly, the Inquisition is another example. And, if we translate "pre Christian" into an era say around 1000 CE, theb the same can be said of the Ottoman Empire, or any other empire in history. Traditionally, smaller communities tended to have an oral tradition, so nobody can know what's lost.