Mexico Acknowledges 2nd Mayan Reference To 2012

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 24 Nov 2011 | Mark Stevenson

[edpc]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.

Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

[Hughesian]

Any proof of that?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Dawggie]

They lost their grant money.

[buccaneer81]

[Jonty30]

Heh.

That’s very cute and appropo.

[noprogs]

They also built round calenders and played ballgames with round goals, yet never used the wheel.

Some bunch of intellectual giants there!

[Trod Upon]

How did they know 0bama would be re-elected?

[PGR88]

If they Mayans were so wise and prescient about predicting the demise of the world, one would think they could have predicted (and done something about) their own demise.

[ApplegateRanch]

one would think they could have predicted (and done something about) their own demise.

Insha'kukulkan...

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[ApplegateRanch]

I hope that as you enjoyed your holiday, you took time to reflect upon, and thank God for all that the Mayas have given us to be thankful for:

Turkeys to eat; old temples and towns to explore; a calendar controversy to worry & obsess over; illegal immigrant descendants to force our various potential candidates to entertain and distress us by sticking their feet in their mouths....

[WOBBLY BOB]

[kalee]

Amen

[Thorliveshere]

Frankly I’m not even sure they predicted an end of anything more than one long count cycle of their calendar like we mark the end of a century or millennium.

Right, that has always been my thought, or as I tell people who bring this up, they had to end the calendar at SOME point, if not to give the stone-carver a break.

[cripplecreek]

Actually I think its kind of sad that crap like this overshadows the Mayan ability to calculate a 53,000 year calendar.

[null and void]

Any proof of that?

Plenty. Search "Mayan Calendar Cortez" in your favorite search engine. I use Bing.

One result on the first page says:

The calendar was also prophetic. In the 8th century A.D. it predicted that white skinned bearded gods would arrive from across the sea on March 5th, 1519. On that precise date Cortez and his conquistadors arrived in the new world.

That seems reasonably unambiguous to me.

[ThanhPhero]

They really didn’t have much use for wheels other than on the wheeled toys they made. They had no draft animals to pull carts. Llamas are insufficient.

[ThanhPhero]

Mayans spoke Arabic?

[ApplegateRanch]

It’s the thought that counts. *<];-’)