Posted on 03/09/2007 9:24:31 AM PST by presidio9
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
Bush's seven-day tour of Latin America includes a stopover beginning late Sunday in Guatemala. On Monday morning he is scheduled to visit the archaeological site Iximche on the high western plateau in a region of the Central American country populated mostly by Mayans.
Tiney said the "spirit guides of the Mayan community" decided it would be necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace. He also said the rites which entail chanting and burning incense, herbs and candles would prepare the site for the third summit of Latin American Indians March 26-30.
Bush's trip has already has sparked protests elsewhere in Latin America, including protests and clashes with police in Brazil hours before his arrival. In Bogota, Colombia, which Bush will visit on Sunday, 200 masked students battled 300 riot police with rocks and small homemade explosives.
The tour is aimed at challenging a widespread perception that the United States has neglected the region and at combatting the rising influence of Venezuelan leftist President Hugo Chavez, who has called Bush "history's greatest killer" and "the devil."
Iximche, 30 miles west of the capital of Guatemala City, was founded as the capital of the Kaqchiqueles kingdom before the Spanish conquest in 1524.
Juan Tiney is not a full blood Maya. He is a college professor and leftist from the lying POS Rigoberta Menchu school of communist/socialist rabble-rousers. I think his mother was an indigina, but I don't know which tribe. Anything he says is highly suspect, and he is using those poor Maya for his own political, collectivist purposes.
Don't laugh. Part of the agenda is killing white people and stealing their property.
I heard somewhere that the Mayan calendar absolutely ended at our date of Dec. 21, 2008 when they expected the cycles of the Earth to end.
So I guess they can either argue that Bush's polluted footprints on their sacred soil ended the Earth and all life as we know it--or they're wasting their efforts since the world ends soon anyway.
Whichever, it's Bush's fault.
This is just more Marxist political theater. Anyone seriously interested the topic, aside from making easy wisecracks about Mayan sacrifices, should do a Google search on Rigoberta Menchu and other Guatemalan/Mayan political writers. The disciples of Marx and Engels have been very busy in that part of the world.
We should purify our welfare rolls.
That's exactly the way I translated the AP doublespeak,
"... Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday"
Cordially,
"Is the purification ritual complicated?"
Define "complicated". One of the rituals (so I've read) was for the ruler/priest to cut his penis with a knife and bleed on the ground which supposedly sanctified the ground with new life. Think Juan will be up for that? Complicated, no. Incredibly ignorant, well, I hate to go against the PC crowd, but YES!
Additionally, the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 (I can't remember which month). I can't say I put much stock in it. I always figured they got tired after figuring it out manually, and just said, "Oh, screw it! We won't be here anyway."
"You mean the kind of Mayan priests who would cut out the living hearts of their human sacrifices?"
Exactly. F**king hypocrites.
Cuzco was a pretty skunky Peruvian beer back in the day...maybe they'll use the alcohol for purification?
And that's why these fools were conquered and basically wiped out. Because they're really, really STUPID. Not my theory...blame it on Darwin.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States,"
This is an example of the extremity of the leftist infection in the world's media. "Migrants" particularly those who just want to walk across the U.S. border, have never had a better friend in the White House than George Bush; yet the world media has made sure that their demonizing myths, and the delusions they cause, will continue to outweigh the reality.
The dangerous calamity this presents for the world is that reality eventually will catch up to the illusions. But, imagine the suffering and tyrannies we are possibly in for before that happens.
I really wished people wold learn the difference between a duplicate and a similar article. The article in the thread is not a duplicate. While they are about the same subject they differ and are from two complete different sources
There's no reason for you to aplogize since the article is not a duplicate.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
Thus spake the Spokeperson for Cannibal Nation.
Those savages did, after all, cut the hearts out of live victims as an integral part of their religion.
Then, the corpses were butchered and eaten.
Savages.
Savages then.
Savages now.
That's what I keep trying to tell these nutballs.
Presidio - didja get banned on Tuesday, or is it 3 in a row without?
Its only two in a row.
Hey....just so you guys know this...these Mayan dudes are burning carbon-free incense...made from only natural hamp weed grown in the Gutamala region and soaked in tubs with Oak Park tourist babes on campus retreat from LSU. In addition...a Barry Bonds-chant has been developed and will be uttered by the Mayan dudes after Bush leaves...in hopes of helping Barry along with the impending home run race. Additionally....Hillary is requesting several of the Mayan priests attend a lecture in upstate New York to deal with shrunken heads...something to do with Bill but its hush-hush project. Finally....Ms. Couric will have a interview with one of the Mayan dudes live on-the-air, and he promises to sacrifice a organic vegetable of some type...supposed to help her ratings and get some college punks interested in her line of reporting.
Time to open another can of crusade on their asses !!
Who are these pagan cavemen to say these things about the leader of the free world.
We should kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
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