Posted on 11/24/2011 7:02:11 PM PST by edpc
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
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I go deeper than that. I’m interested in the interest in the interest in it.
Interesting.
The first Spanish arrived in the Yucatan peninsula (land of the Maya where the calendar was perfected) in 1511 as the result of a shipwreck. Cordoba sailed there deliberately in 1517. Cortez didn’t arrive in what is now Veracruz, central Mexico, among Aztec vassals, until 1519. This is not to denigrate his accomplishments, but he was not the first Bearded God to arrive in Mexico, by a long shot. Really the conquest of Mexico is more ambiguous that many acknowledge.
You’re not trying to ruin a perfectly good debate with facts are you????
Several ancient societies were possessed of very impressive astronomical skills. It does give me pause that there is some indication of a periodic difficulty associated with astronomical phenomenon, roughly on a 3,600 year cycle. Asteroid belt, comets, not at all sure since the distinction was not exactly made by them. But, there’s something to it. I’ve begun to seriously consider that some elements of Biblical prophecy are in relation to the same event(s).
So, while I don’t go for the whole Mayan long count calendar, December 12, 2012 thing as as some do, I won’t completely discount it as nonsense, either. They knew a few things that weren’t understood by us until recent decades.
Sorry, sorry. I don’t know what came over me....
Forget 2012, we’re not getting past December!
;^P
And the same to you and yours. It wasn’t a bad weekend (so far), alas, only one day to go.
Best part of retirement: 7 day weekends.
If the Mayans could tell the future, why did they vanish?
;’)
I’m stealin’ it.
The downside: no paid vacations. LOL
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