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GROUND ZERO Entertainment
Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 864 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: Scholar Finds Mayans' Path Through Hell |
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TZIBICHEN CENOTE, Mexico (Nov. 9) - Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.
Now a Mexican archaeologist using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish Inquisition says a series of caves he has explored may be the place where the Maya actually tried to depict this highway through hell.
Using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish conquistadors, a Mexican archaeologist has discovered a series of caves where people from the Mayan civilization tried to depict the journey into the afterlife. The network of underground chambers, roads and temples beneath farmland and jungle on the Yucatan peninsula suggests the Maya fashioned them to mimic the journey to the underworld, or Xibalba, described in ancient mythological texts... _________________ Label:
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In Solitude
Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 5181 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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Link and/or pictures? _________________
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GROUND ZERO Entertainment
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markos
Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1530 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for linking that. that last picture is awesome. makes caves like that look like you can just casually stumble upon (or into) them. still not convinced there's a hell (or heaven or after life), but cool nonetheless. |
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GROUND ZERO Entertainment
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, I'm not a big believer in an afterlife,
but I find it interesting that 1000 years ago these guys tried to re-create in the physical world that they lived in, what their mythology said existed in the after world...
they explored all these caves, built all these stairs, pathways, and altars, etc. without any kind of modern tools or machines and had to do it all by torch lite hundreds of feet underground... _________________ Label:
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Sacrilegio
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Quite interesting.....thanks for the link. |
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Voodoo Idol
Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 671
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Saw that article as well, naturally buried beneath tons of 'who is hollywood whore X adopting today' bullshit. This happens to every article that could possibly further a reader's brain-power in any way, same shit everytime something about the Hadron Collider pops up. |
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Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2996 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: |
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Well it has more to do with selling papers rather improving public IQ. |
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