Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Posted on 05/10/2012 9:46:37 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
An ancient Mayan skull stolen from Tibet by Nazis - said to have magical powers to enable humanity to survive the December 2012 apocalypse - has been dropped by a lab assistant in eastern Germany, chipping its chin.
The volcanic rock skull, named Quauthemoc, was dropped - or, more eerily, may have fallen of its own accord - during a photo-shoot at a laboratory in the small town of Glauchau, Saxony.
"It was probably put down somewhere a bit wobbly," an eye-witness told Bild newspaper. "Suddenly it crashed to the floor. A big piece broke off the chin. It's really tragic."
But the skull's private owner - who was not in the room at the time of the fateful accident - was more sanguine.
"It was a bit of a shock at first, but then I found the damage was fairly marginal, so I was quite relieved," skull-owner Thomas Ritter told The Local. "I don't think it's a bad omen."
The 43-year-old amateur historian calls his Mayan skull Quauthemoc, and says it is one of 13 magic skulls that will help humanity survive the impending apocalypse on December 21, 2012 – the last day of the Mayan calendar.
On that day, Ritter plans to bring Quauthemoc to a meeting with the other owners and their skulls to an ancient Mayan site in Mexico.
"The prophecy says that the skulls will reveal a secret knowledge to humanity on that day," said Ritter. "But I can't say more than that. The skulls might start speaking or something, but I have no idea."
The journey taken by Quauthemoc to the lab in Saxony is worthy of an Indiana Jones adventure – Ritter said it had been kept in southern India and Tibet, where it was stolen from a monastery by a Nazi expedition between 1937 and 1939.
After the war, it was found among the belongings of Nazi Interior Minister and Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, a well-known connoisseur of black magic and ancient pagan cultures.
Ritter wrote in 2009 that a man whose grandfather was present when Himmler was arrested and took the skull, later gave it to him at meeting in Wiltshire, southern England.
The man told Ritter that Quauthemoc had chosen to “continue its journey” with him.
Ritter said he was not concerned that the chip on the skull's chin will limit its ability to prevent Armageddon.
"A lot of the other skulls have some kind of superficial damage too," he pointed out, rejecting the theory that butter-fingered lab assistants in Saxony would be responsible if the world ends in December.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
A crummy commercial? Son of a b-—h!
Theory of evolution would allow that this is not actually a skull. It’s just one of the millions of shapes of rocks that occur naturally and is just a coincidence. Put it on the shelf along side the randomly evolved wheel shaped rock.
“Anyone that believes that crap belongs locked up in the looney bin!”
Indeed, they would be stupid enough to vote for Obama.
"Evolved" is a four letter word now at FR...
Superstitious nonsense.
the theory that butter-fingered lab assistants in Saxony would be responsible if the world ends in December.
It’s as good as any thing.
A chip off the old block!
Ok, the world doesn’t end in december,
the calender ends in december.
It heard the casinos are really good [rimshot]...
Thank you! I'm here all week! Try the veal!
He dropped it in shock when he heard on the news that Obama supports gay marriage. So for all those who said gay marriage wouldn’t lead to the end of civilization as we know it, lesson learned.
Here is a little secret:
Mayans didn’t know about the .23 in 365.23 days to orbit the sun. They didn’t have leap years.
Mayan “2012” ended in July 2011.
I’m sure they’ll be singing a tasteful medley of Abba hits.
Or: “Doomkopf!”
You mean we’ve all been dead for the last 10 months? Well, that would explain my lethargic demeanor and lack of personal accomplishment for that period.
Now to work on an excuse for the rest of the time.
Personally, I just wonder why people care about what bunch or primitive heathens might or might not have predicted.
Daily.
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