reply to post by laiguana
...there does seem like plenty more to discover! Considering the MAYA has a "bible" -- the
Popol
Vuh and a few other (known) writings, then, there's these codices that BlackProjects brought up from seeing a documentary.
Remember, there's only three legit ones in existence! The Spanish invasion destroyed most of the Mayans work, what remains, is rare and difficult to
study.
Since these 'experiments' are a successful way to locate some of this nature, underground chambers, I really look forward to this too -- just wish
it was next year, not 2009!
Either way, ANY Mayan writing discovery will be a HUGE discovery -- also, in my recent research into the Mayans, I've discovered that this 2012 thing
might be a lot of hype.
From this book, again:
Their observations and calculations were undertaken, and in due course refined, so as to better predict the events on Earth that these deities
were believed to control. There is no evidence that the ancient Maya understood these movements as Kepler and Copernicus did.
(pg. 581, 5th ed -- and will this matter to the 6th, current edition? Probably not, although there is an 11 year gap between editions? New info? I
haven't gotten the update (2005) yet!... just thought this should be pointed out.)
And we all should know how renowned those two are. My last speculation, for now, to date, is that other Codex. Maybe there's something on there
that *the public* should not know and that's how the 2012 hype/buzz got started, I don't know -- but this book, like I mentioned, classic college
textbook, dense, well-researched since 1946, never alludes to 2012. Mind you, I haven't 'finished' it (over 850 pages, ftnotes, indexes, graphs),
but in skimming through the index and referencing these topics -- no mention of event, just calendar phases.
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