Mayan Temples and The Book of Mormon

Recently, archaeologists have discovered the creation engraved in a Mayan temple in El Mirador, Guatamala. This is the same creation from the Popul Vuh, a Mayan work which relates many Biblical stories including the creation, and the great flood in Noahs time. It was thought that these stories were influenced by Catholic Priests, but, as this clip shows, there may be a more ancient setting for these stories.
This is a CNN report, which shows the discovery of the largest pyramid to date, along with a carving of the Mayan creation dated to around 300 B.C. This may place the stories of the Popul Vuh, and it's Christian stories, to pre-Columbian times.

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Thanks to THELDSLIFE, we now have a transcript of this video in English and Spanish here:
http://theldslife.blogspot.com/2009/11/cnn-transcript-mayan-temples-of-book-o...

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[glycoboy]

i've been there. i stood atop El Mirador. they had dug a tunnel in one of the pyramids to find what might be at its center. a surprise to the archeologists, they found another temple underneath the one they were digging! i stood in the crevice they made between the two temples, and faced a mayan mask 10 feet tall full of color. the mask was a statue/gargoyal hanging off the buried temple.. i can't begin to explain how rad it was and the many book of mormon relations there were. endless!

[fairldsorg]

@glycoboy I cannot tell you how jealous I am...

[bmw311]

@mobregonjr From the news report: "For decades historians believed the Popol Vuh was tainted by the Catholic views of Spanish conquistadors. Finding this frieze changes everything, because it predates the Spanish arrival by more than a millennium."

[thorkyll]

em........what does the book of mormon have to do with this video?

[LDS4Life71]

@ViCe1986 Stenvgevarsel1 is a sour, bitter anti mormon. It's no wonder he will say rediculous things like he is.  Dr. Hansen in the video above just happens to be a latter day saint, and he is dilligently working on the truth.

[LoneIndividual]

@MisioneriesinChile

There is only one reality. Stop it with the multi-verse crap. God created the Cosmos, which has many aspects and elements to it, but it is all together. Dimensions are merely an issue of depth perception.

ps: I think that God was the first living being. Who is to say that God didn't emerge out of goo and create us right after?

[biggdannyd]

@biggdannyd not to sound like a jerk... I couldn't get it to post so I wrote it out like that

[LDS4Life71]

@fairldsorg Just like the anti Nephi Lehis' were another sub- group.