Yes I did.
Posted on 12/17/2004 2:43:44 PM PST by blam
Indeed. An alternate explanation.
missed you on the GGG ping.
Aligning a building to True North is easy any time of the year. It only takes a stick an a (long) piece of string or rope.
Did you pet the Chac Mol on the smaller Pyramid?
Much of the blood culture seems to be from the Toltecs. It's really ugly, but probably not much worse than Europe at times.
They did. They also had a rather accurate astronomical calendar.
Either the Mayas or their nearby neighbors did invent cooking with vanilla, chocolate, chili, and the use of chewing gum. (Not everyone agrees any of this was a Good Thing.)
True, but Omar Khayyám's was good enough that tidal forces would change the day before his version needed correction.
Khayyám just had 31 leap years (every 4 years) in a 128 year cycle. (I think that the guys revising the Julian to the Gregorian calander did study Khayyám. They rejected his because they wanted to keep to decimal centuries rather than binary heptadae.)
Yes I did.
That's him alright.
Actcually it was Tenochtitlan. Teotihuacan was abandoned before the Aztecs came to the area.
But perhaps such meaningful interpretations are fanciful. ... Ultimately, then, it will be virtually impossible to prove that any specific echo effect is intentional.Closer to the truth than anything else that was written; it wouldn't be the first time that 'a design' had other, non-planned or unintentional side effects ...
My mistake. It's been fifteen years since I studies Meso American art so some of my recollections are getting a little fuzzy.
studies = studied. Gotta remember to wear my glasses while typing.
You are right. It is just we 'westerners' that acquired land. That has never been done before.
True, the ancient cultures may have known a lot such as herbal medicine, but not understood it. Obviously we 'know' much more today, such as technology, computers, genetics etc. However we are plagued by cancers, depression, incurable diseases etc which we don't understand. Much of the knowledge of the ancients I imagine they didn't understand, nor would we understand it today, but I'm sure they 'knew' things we could use today. Perhaps by combining what they 'knew' with what we 'know', we might understand some complex things. I would imagine that if modern society suddenly ended due to some catastrophe, and future beings dug up our records, they would also claim that we understood and 'knew' little.
How to temper copper.
Excuse me, Mexicans were the Indians raped by the Spanish that conquered them. There was never even a race called Mexican before that.
Today the bastard children of the Mexican Indians and Spanish still enslave the 2/3rds of the population who are the original Indians.
It is the race from rape coming here, not some great people.
Also, even with the indians of Mexico, frankly , since they found their ancestors were cannibals by the human remains in their stomach, I'm no fan of their history either.
Nixon was a good man, just too darn paranoid and protectful of friends.
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