Breaking the Maya Code #1: Introduction

[chrispikeyp]

you have some great stuff here

[mario50ization]

Montezuma is the ANTI_CHRIST comming back know it study it and get a good look !!!!

[LDS4Life71]

At Palenque the most common hieroglyphic translated to English reads "It came to pass."

coincidence?

lds.org

[NightFireFilms]

@LDS4Life71 -- Not a coincidence, just a very common word, which could also be read "it happened". Maya inscriptions often list a series of events, the births and ascension to power and deaths of kings, victories in war, and so on, as in many other cultures. These events are almost always linked by the verb you mention, which could also be translated "and then..." as in: "he was born in such and such a year, and then in such and such a year he came to the throne, and then..."

[calman1951]

@LDS4Life71 So what? That's doesnt prove a thing re:the BofM. It shows LDS desperation!

[LoneDerangerer]

@LDS4Life71 OH NO, NOT ANOTHER JESUS FREAK!

[LDS4Life71]

@LoneDerangerer God lives, and I know I am born again. The Maya knew the nephites, and God commisioned prophets to teach them against human sacrifice which was what the people were doing when the family arrived. they were not alone, and there was civilization when they arrived, and MELDED with them, until they were killed off by wars. Archaeology and Anthropology are proving us. Dr. Richard Hansen the head of the Mirador project is LDS.

[LoneDerangerer]

@LDS4Life71 Richard Hansen can believe in whatever the hell he wants. I respect the guy for his work sure, but not some wacko on the internet trying to link his work to jesus.

[LDS4Life71]

@LoneDerangerer I don't have to. There are plenty of websites that do it backed by phds. Are they wacko? LOL

THe book of Mormon is 100% authentic part of ancient meso american history.

[NWOareScum]

@LDS4Life71 - dum dum dum dum duuuuum.

[NightFireFilms]

Yes, CCH Pounder did the wonderful narration -- it was a privilege to work with her.

[TheSoilworker]

I saw "Proteus" in Savannah and bought it shortly after - I think I would like to buy this too now! And is that CCH Pounder narrating?

[chamolihn]

Hold on a second. 'When Europeans discovered Maya texts, no one could read them?'

Well, actually - the Maya could read them - which is why the Europeans destroyed every text they could find, and outlawed the writing.

Shame on the producers of this documentary for glossing that over.

[NightFireFilms]

The film doesn't make the statement you quote. As the film makes clear, it took the Spanish 200 years to systematically wipe out all literacy in the Maya script. By shortly after 1700, nobody on earth could read the glyphs. Then, about 15 years later, Europeans began wondering what those curious symbols were and spent another 200 years deciphering them.

[OnyxCode]

will you decipher the ...::: OnyxCode :::...

[alejandromed22]

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[NightFireFilms]

Excellent question! I'm a film maker, not a Mayanist, but I have heard discussion of this issue over the years. The most intriguing hypothesis to me is as follows:

In the Madrid Codex the New Year ceremony is portrayed 4 times. There are clues in the imagery that these may be taking place at different times of day. If the Maya moved their New Year celebration by 6 hours every year that would change it by 1 day every four years, accomplishing the same thing as our Leap Year!

[0hnoman]

i remember reading a school history text on mayan civilization. One review question went something like " the mayan calander had 365 days. The accurate year is known to be 365.25 years (or something like that). How many days would the mayan calander be off after a) 10 years b) 340 years c) 962 years" always thought this to be a maths question and that it really didn't do justice to what a complex, fascinating civilisation it was...

[Armando2012102]

We're lucky the Mayas backed up their paper documents with stone carvings and inscriptions. The savage Spanish priest Diego de Landa gathered all the Maya manuscripts (thousands of astronomical tables, mathematical formulas, medical manuals, etc.) and burned them in one giant bonfire.

The 16th-century Conquest of Mexico & Peru was the most massive, brutal and devastating HOLOCAUST ever, in both human casualties and cultural destruction.

[acerb45666555]

2- i dont go for the ancient sacrificing. i just wanted to make a point. that if WE (Celts-Scandinavians) and Spain, did that shit,(Pre-Christian and Post-Christian) then we have no right to slam others for it.

[acerb45666555]

Spain and Christendom. how dare they in the past condemn natives for sacrificing, when the Spanish Inquisition sacrificed half of Spains population!! and anyone else they could grab!

[OneRemainingUsername]

thanks bee

[excal505]

They are called tunes.