Breaking the Maya Code #1: Introduction
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Uploaded by NightFireFilms on Sep 26, 2009
Introduction to a feature documentary on the history of the Maya decipherment. This is one of 8 scenes available on YouTube from the 2-hour documentary film Breaking the Maya Code, the winner of 5 Best Picture awards at International film festivals. For more on the film and the Maya script go to http://www.nightfirefilms.org/breakingthemayacode/ or to buy the film on DVD go to http://www.nightfirefilms.net/store/store.htm
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you have some great stuff here
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@LDS4Life71 - dum dum dum dum duuuuum.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@LDS4Life71 OH NO, NOT ANOTHER JESUS FREAK!
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Montezuma is the ANTI_CHRIST comming back know it study it and get a good look !!!!
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@LDS4Life71 So what? That's doesnt prove a thing re:the BofM. It shows LDS desperation!
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At Palenque the most common hieroglyphic translated to English reads "It came to pass."
coincidence?
lds.org
LDS4Life71 2 months ago
@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..."
NightFireFilms 2 months ago
Yes, CCH Pounder did the wonderful narration -- it was a privilege to work with her.
NightFireFilms 3 months ago
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.
chamolihn 6 months ago
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.
NightFireFilms 3 months ago
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!
NightFireFilms 1 year ago