Nova - The Mayan Language 1/6

Member of a prehistoric American Indian civilization originating in the Yucatán Peninsula in Central America about 2600 BC, with later sites in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Their language belonged to the Totonac-Mayan family. From AD 325 to 925 (Classical Period) the Maya culture dominated the region, after which it declined under pressure from the Toltec and, from the 16th century, the Spanish. The Maya are known for their ceremonial centres, which included stepped pyramids, ball courts, and astronomical observatories. Today Maya live in Yucatán, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras, and number 89 million (1994 est). Many speak Maya along with Spanish, but they are now Roman Catholic.

The Maya were originally ruled by a theocracy supported by taxation and tribute; they traded with their neighbours to the north and south. Maya beliefs were based on land, which was held in common until the arrival of the Spanish. They celebrated a complex religion with a calendar, many deities, and ceremonies that included a kind of ball game and human sacrifice. They constructed stone buildings and stepped pyramids without metal tools; used hieroglyphic writing in manuscripts, of which only three survive; were skilled potters, weavers, and farmers; and regulated their rituals and warfare by observations of the planet Venus.

At the beginning of the Post-Classic period (AD 9001521), Toltecs from the Valley of Mexico moved south into the area, building new ceremonial centres and dominating the local people. Nevertheless, Maya sovereignty was maintained, for the most part, until late in the Spanish conquest (1560s) in some areas. In the 1980s more than 100,000 Maya fled from Guatemala to Mexico in response to a Guatemalan military campaign of terrorizing and killing the Mayan people.

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In Hindu philosophy, mainly in the Vedanta, the cosmos that Isvara, the personal expression of Brahman, or the atman, has called into being. This is real, yet also an illusion, since its reality is not everlasting.

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[sickbasterd123]

Ahh it pisses me of how much the spaniards destroyed the mayan writings fucking douchebags!!

[immantiat]

That's why at some level mexicans and other latinamerican persons cannot stand psanish people: their half indian part calls for the blood shed once in hands of conquistadors. We would call it now crimes against Human Kind, at least.

[NWOareScum]

need to remember, actually-evil invaders etc are like 100000s-of-channels is today - they say about someone else as if that someone else is like them. and they say things about others that really apply to them instead.

[NWOareScum]

actual mayans say they didn't do human sacrifices, i think the ball-game losers might have had some things like that happen but for different reasons. eg similar to if some fight thingy today had fights to the death, or dangerous sports taking place.

[NWOareScum]

@2011mrnoah - if you take shrooms those are the kinds of cartoony things you will see. the actual intelligence behind creation. if you look at chinese characters they look like a stylised version of mayan glyphs.

[2011mrnoah]

have u notice how Pokeman and Mayan glyph look alike.

[pointblankchi]

I am mayan indian :)

[executioner67]

This is why I still have a vile hatred for christianity because it has destroyed more than it has created.

[interstellarwonder]

nice vid,kinda blurry. it's interesting how the mayan writing isn't close to being decyphered,yet the researchers are quick to assume "blood ,blood everywhere".

[FinallyBacktoBasics]

@HunterOfDulIards Ahh, ya didn't understand. Look at the Polish..they're not white either. They may seem it, but look closely and concentrate.

[HunterOfDulIards]

@FinallyBacktoBasics Strange. If they are "light, bright", then it would seem that they are "white" indeed. And, yes, I have seen tons of them. They are white.

[FinallyBacktoBasics]

@HunterOfDulIards Just look at them...they're light, bright but not quite white. Just like the Italians.