The perfect accompaniment to ballpark beheading fare . . . .
Posted on 11/19/2010 3:43:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A Prehispanic sculpture that represents a beheaded ballgame player was discovered by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at El Teul Archaeological Zone, in Zacatecas, one of the few Mesoamerican sites continuously occupied for 18 centuries... The quarry dates from 900-1100 of the Common Era and evidence determines that the sculpture was created beheaded, maybe to serve as a pedestal for the heads of sacrificed players of the ritual ballgame.
The cylindrical sculpture with a 52 centimeter diameter is 1.97 meters high and weighs nearly a ton, and was located in the southeast area of the Ballgame court. Fragments of a similar sculpture were found in the northern extreme, so it is possible to find a pair of similar sculptures in the western side, still unexplored.
According to archaeologist Peter Jimenez Betts, co director of the Cerro del Teul Archaeological Project, this richness in objects is the result from a continued occupation that the hill presented for at least 1,800 years... Cerro del Teul, symbol of the Zacatecas town Teul de Gonzalez Ortega, is one of the few sites in America with uninterrupted occupation from 200 BC to 1531 AD. In relation with its temporal sequence, it can only be compared with Cholula, in Puebla, and it is most probably the only site with such a long occupation in Mesoamerican western and northern regions.
Peter Jimenez and archaeologist Laura Solar, co director of the project, share the opinion of El Teul being the most important ceremonial center of Caxcan people, one of the bravest groups that fought Spanish Conquerors several times, almost defeating them in the famous Mixton War.
(Excerpt) Read more at artdaily.org ...
Again, do not mistake a tan for original issue ~ and Saddam Hussein even looked particularly East Asian, yet he was mostly of Arab origin but his part of the world was conquered by the Mongols, and then the Turks, so there's that part.
Facebook and the Univision website are corrupted and have trojans? And I have been going to the Network 54 forum for more than a decade without any problems. I don’t get it. The links work for me, I just tried them. I use those sites all the time.
Although it can't hurt this system, the signal is for me to shut down.
You can go to a site every day for years and years and years and then, bingo, "something wicked comes this way".
BTW, no, your first guy doesn't look particularly Naytiv ~ he kind of looks Italian.
I take it you don’t spend much time in Mexico.
A lot of Americans think Indians look like Arabs because that sort of physiognomy was sought out to play Indians in the old movies. That Italian look is probably also Arab. Southern Europe, especially southern Italy and Spain are lousy with Arab genes left over from various periods of occupation. The big arab noses of some of the famous warriors of the plains of the 1800s could well be that same derivation from the Spanish conquistadors and the Spanish population of the southwest from the 1600s.
The perfect accompaniment to ballpark beheading fare . . . .
Eskimos, with smaller noses, are descended from other Yakuts.
Noses appear to not be "fixed", and in the same family you'll find big noses and small noses.
It's the BEAK shaped nose you want to look for, with a "curve" ~ that's shared by the Japanese (with larger noses), the Indians AND the Yakuts ~
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That remark was a grand slam (into left field for a change)!
Well, a lot of detail, maybe. :’)
Hey, if they made a mouthwash, you *know* there’d be people who just hadda have it.
LOL!
The Aztecs had something they euphemistically referred to as “the corncrib”, consisting of a corncrib-like structure that ran along straight out from the base of the staircase of the big pyramid in Tenochtitlan. It was filled with human skulls, and the Spanish estimated that it held around 250,000. They got rid of that, and the temples, and buried various idols such as Huitzilapochtli.
I thought they did the house cleaning because they wanted to control the wealth of the conquered people and part of doing that is controlling the people. If you take away their religious institutions and their festival games and a host of other things you can get what you want.
Either way they did them a favor.
The Yucatecas are pretty isolated from the rest of Mexico. Their Mayan features would be better preserved especially since the Spanish ruled along a strict caste system ther. The henequen revolutions were pretty bloody affairs driving many Spanish back home to Spain.
Are you talking about the Spanish in Mexico or our own American comintern?
They seem to have similar goals and methods.
There is a partial glyph at the bottom of the statue that reads:
For there is no joy in Ceulville,
Mighty Quetzal has struck out.
I highly recommend “The Caste War of Yucatan” by Nelson Reed. There are a lot of people in Yucatan who look exactly like the carvings and paintings. But there are a lot of Mayan descendants in Chiapas, as well. But there are many in Northern Mexico with a very native cast of feature. Another one: Jose Guadalupe Esparza, a musician, de Monterry:
http://www.libertaddepalabra.com/2010/08/graba-lupe-esparza-banda-placer/
You mean Commies?
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