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Crazy claims from Mayan documentarian

2012 is going to be the year all the Mayan computers crash. If your company runs on Mayan technology, it will be a disaster of Y2k proportions. Or worse, since programmers who are fluent in Mayan programming languages are even rarer than old COBOLers. :)
 
idoubtit said:
“I understand people are skeptical, but I got news for you,” insisted Julia-Levy. “This is not going to be a movie for UFO aficionados. We’re introducing evidence, facts and the truth.

“And according to the Mayan Council, archaeologists have been lying to the world and covering things up. They don’t know how to read the Mayan codices, and they don’t know what the Mayan Council knows.”
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Just a reminder that no respected expert on Mayan Civilization does anything but laugh at the 2012 Mayan Calender Nonsense.
 
dudalb said:
Just a reminder that no respected expert on Mayan Civilization does anything but laugh at the 2012 Mayan Calender Nonsense.
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hey, while thats great to hear you might want to check if this thread has anything to do with the Mayan calendar before posting, because the OP carefully left out mention of it to focus on the extra terrestrial claims made for the documentary
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Marduk said:
and here, finally for your viewing pleasure are the nightmare (to explain I guess) artifacts he was referring to
http://www.galacticresonance.org/case-study/central-american-artifacts/
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If those are Mayan then they were done by the worst artist in the entire city. They lack the delicate details and fine geometric precision of all the other Mayan art I have seen thus far. Compared to most Mayan carving this work is quick and sloppy.

Also, where the heck are they claiming they found these things? They're in better shape then objects I've seen coming out of Egyptian tombs and those are some of the best preserved artifacts in the world! The lines are sharp and unbroken and none of the pieces are chipped or worn in any way. Any irregularity of shape seems to be a factor of the material rather than any sign of age.
 
Weak Kitten said:
If those are Mayan then they were done by the worst artist in the entire city. They lack the delicate details and fine geometric precision of all the other Mayan art I have seen thus far. Compared to most Mayan carving this work is quick and sloppy.

Also, where the heck are they claiming they found these things? They're in better shape then objects I've seen coming out of Egyptian tombs and those are some of the best preserved artifacts in the world! The lines are sharp and unbroken and none of the pieces are chipped or worn in any way. Any irregularity of shape seems to be a factor of the material rather than any sign of age.
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I love that the alien craft are all saucer shaped too, guess whoever made them hadn't heard of Kenneth Arnold
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The Greater Fool said:
I tried this, and it worked!

I prayed over and over "Don't make me do this!" and the instant the blade touched skin, I stopped. I also completely forgot why I began the process to begin with.
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When I saw your avatar, for a moment I thought Jerome da Gnome had somehow returned, which I think is a sign of the apocalypse.

Close call there ...
 
dudalb said:
Just a reminder that no respected expert on Mayan Civilization does anything but laugh at the 2012 Mayan Calender Nonsense.
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Now, now I'm sure there's a fair amount of deep sighing, muttering and, in extreme cases, loud diatribes against stupidity.
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Ladewig said:
I found what seems to be a reliable website that claims if a obsidian knife is not available a stingray spine may be used to cut the penis,
http://www.naomistolow.com/travelogue/maya_sacrifice.html

And just to be clear on the matter. One is supposed to ritually cut one's penis, drip the blood on a piece of paper, and then burn the paper so that the smoke rises up to meet the Gods. Craig4 made the thing sound silly by leaving off the last two steps.
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Gosh, if I had a dime for every time I cut my penis with an obsidian knife and burned my blood as offerings to the gods...

I'd have 60 cents.
 
Ladewig said:
One is supposed to ritually cut one's penis, drip the blood on a piece of paper, and then burn the paper so that the smoke rises up to meet the Gods.
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Misogynistic Gods. This is totally unfair to people without penises.
 
When I worked on an archaeological dig in Manchester, our site supervisor, a qualified and experienced archaeologist, did indeed have a nightmare. It was hordes of idiots with metal detectors getting on site and doing their own digging after we'd finished for the day.

One such person did turn up, had a chat with some of us and made a crack about coming back with a metal detector. Glynn, the supervisor, went out and bought several pounds of nails, then had us knock them into the whole site every few inches. Nightmare averted.

This was back in the late-80's, mind, so impending apocalyptic planet-busting doom took a back seat to metal detectors.
 
MatildaGage said:
Misogynistic Gods. This is totally unfair to people without penises.
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Not to worry, the womenfolk were able to get in on the bloodletting too. They got to pierce their tongues and thread a rope with thorns on it through the hole so they could bleed on the paper.
 
More Mayan woo. God will those people EVER bother to do some actual research. I also just love the way they dismiss the work of the deciphers of Mayan glyphs. Do these people have any idea about how hard, difficult and laborious war the task, which is still ongoing. Sorry but I take the work of David Stuart over clods asserting woo.

Do these people have any idea of the large number of Mayan Indians going into Archaeology or how many Mayan Indians are now learning to read the Glyphs?

Does this person have any clue about how the Books of the Chiliam Balam, (Books of the Jaguar Priests), are constructed and how the alleged "Prophecies" in them fit into the Mayan view of the Cosmos? The Mayan traditionally viewed time as cyclical with events in some sense repeating themselves and this is reflected in their religious literature. Certainly they viewed the Univese has undergoing several 'creations", but the end of the current "creation" was not expected to happen for trillion upon trillions of years. As for the Mayans allegedly thinking that the human population to be decimated in the generation after 2012 that is sheer gobbly gook based upon deliberate misreading of the Books of Chiliam Balam, which in certain sections are allegedly prophesying the coming of the Spanish and its effects. I should point out that after the Spnish came the effect of new European diseases reduced the Mayan population by at least 60% and probably 80%. It probably felt like to some of the Maya undergoing it like the end of the world. This was accompanied by the displacement of the Mayan ruling class, and by the attempted supression of Mayan religion and culture. To say nothing about the widespread destruction of Mayan books such as only 4 codicies survived the supression. Other books appeared to survive in latin alphebet copies as the books of Chilliam Balam. In other words it was like an apocalypse to those experiencing it.

The alleged prophicies of destruction are to a large extent rememberances of this events projected back into the past as prophecies.

The best thing about the whole 2012 crap as been the upsurge of tourism into the Mayan areas of Mexico and Guatemala, boosting the economies of those areas. I'm all for the actual Maya getting something from this utter nonsense.
 
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