this is very interesting!
can someone explain to me why the mayans have an elephant statue!!!!
that is nutty!!!
i guess its in the same realm as angor wat and there stegasoauras carvings!!!
history is a mystery!!!

Some of those are dead ringers. The 3rd eye dot is an intersting one actually, indian culture also displays a dot in the same place. Nice find.

It's going to be hard to get academics to accept a theory we only have circumstantial evidence for at best. I personally believe it will prove out with time. Though maybe not quite in the way we might think at present. But it has some big hurdles to get over first.

To prove a single civilization that all others came out of, we need more than just architectural similarities. We need some solid evidence in several cultural areas that when the puzzle pieces are gathered, paint a tapestry that is hard to ignore.

Then we have other questions begging to be answered. Was this single civilization the pinnacle of those after it? Or was it merely the beginning, and common ideas built the cultures that advanced afterward?

Not to get religious, but from a Jewish, and even Christian perspective, Hyperdiffusionism is very acceptable considering the story of Nimrod, and the tower of Babel. That story, without the supernatural embellishments, stands as a very old "witness" to hyperdiffusionism, if true that is.

Originally posted by reficul
this is very interesting!
can someone explain to me why the mayans have an elephant statue!!!!
that is nutty!!!
i guess its in the same realm as angor wat and there stegasoauras carvings!!!
history is a mystery!!!

I saw that too, and I'm guessing it's an anteater.

I remember being in grade school and getting in trouble for "ignoring the facts to spread fantasy". I had my entire class convinced of this. We came back from recess and presented our ideas to our teacher who was not to happy because we wanted to modify the homework assignment to reflect what we thought was sthe correct history. Sister mary was a dumbass. Kids often have more insight than the adults who make them dumb.

This is the truth. There was a mother culture and we had more to learn from it than everything we came up with after.


Bullocks is what I say to all academia. Bullocks.

The cultures around the world have ancient ties so there should be similarities in their structures. World travel by ancient people happened. Think about it, would ships all of a sudden appear amongst all ancient cultures around the same time three thousand years ago? No, some cultures had ships long before that and showed that technology to others. You don't go straight from a cave man to a sea merchant, there was lot of technology by some civilizations in the middle. Look at today, have we really changed much in the last fourty years? Sure we created space shuttles which had maintenance costs higher than single use rockets to get into space. We could have launched these payloads into space separately with less cost.

Forty years ago we had computers but not personal ones and they were more work than they were worth. Now we got computers and forgot how to think for ourselves. What about cars? Seems like the new ones are just more complicated and riddled with recalls. If you get in an accident they crumple all up. I like the old cars better, just think what a little of the technology would have done for them. We are polluting the earth at an increasing rate, sure the USA doesn't have any factories anymore but we still consume products who's production destroys the environment.

We have learned to put our country into debt and ourselves also buying things we really don't need to survive. I bring this up to show that people don't rapidly change, only hide the facts that they don't change with each advancement in deceptive thought. Mankind wants to be more advanced than our ancestors were and changes their perception of logic to show it.

So to wrap this up I will say that just because there is no proof that there wasn't a very good shipping industry five thousand plus years ago doesn't mean it didn't exist. It just means we have not found evidence. There appears to be a lot of time of change in perception between these styles, like many generations of separation had occurred between their creations. Maybe a thousand years before their creation were the new settlers relocated. Long enough to have basic similarities but short enough for the main appearance changes to occur. The copying of pictures from generation to generation allows small changes because of tradition. There appears to be at least twenty generations of change in these things @ fifty years a generational change.

Very interesting when presented as this Thread has displayed. I would not be surprised if the deity/god worshiped in both cases, was not the same.

Deities and gods are not bound to specific areas on this planet, and over the course of time, it should be expected their influences would travel as well.

We can see evidence of this, but to a less traveled scale, within the Mid East and Med Basin areas, where the same deities and gods are worshipped in varying cultures, but with different names. (Ishtar/Dianna same deity, different name, different peoples, different time)

But unlike what is seen in the area I noted above, I do not recall such a detailed resemblence anywhere in the Old World.

Truly Remarkable.

Ciao

Shane

I don't see it. The Bali sculptures are often laughing, the Mayans rarely are.

Proof!

Well, we already think that the Indian nations wandered over the northern pole from Eurasia.

However, in this case ... it pretty much looks like, that it's not merely the fauna on the two sides that are related, but also cultures have similar background. If it wasn't for carbon dating, I'd say these cultures existed in close proximity of each other and that the pacific was not as big as it is now

Meh. A lot of these similiarities are nothing more than societies both finding optimals ways of doing things. Such as the arched door. MANY societies had arched doors because they were very stable. And in all honesty, how creative do you have to be to come up with an idea like that? not very!

Also, many of the motiffs and styles are archaic and almost instinctual. One of the main archaic symbols is the snake or dragon. or ouroboros. just about every culture has a version of this.

But what im really trying to say is, humans are creative, and yet we also prefer similar things. For example, most people prefer architecture to be somewhat symmetrical. Does this mean all the ancients got together and conspired to make all architecture symmetrical? Or just that its a common theme among human architecture because it pleases the human eye?

If you watch the last episode of Battlestar Galactica.

It pretty much explains a lot of this.

I know, it's a sci fi show. But they would throw in a lot of topics that are talked about on ATS.