El Castillo ("The Castle") pyramid towers over the ruins at Chichén Itzá, one of the largest Mayan cities, in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula (Donald Miralle/Getty Images/CNN).
Sacred sinkhole or cenote used to feed reptilians ("feathered serpents" in the underworld)
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Mexico's new Mayan Train sparks controversy
The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole (cenote) and other underground caverns.
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, touching the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico
"The gods" - Mayan plaster idol, Honduras, DEA, (V. Giannella, contributor via Getty Images)
The costly Mayan Train to some of Mexico's most touristic areas (France 24)
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Mexico, Maya (Oaxaca Ocho Venado)
A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has stuck in the contemporary imagination and become hard to dislodge even as more recent research has suggested that both men and women were among those sacrificed as well as children. A study published Wednesday (6/12/24) in the journal Nature adds unexpected detail to that more complex picture.
Archeologists discover an ancient Mayan city in the forest that's been hidden for 2K years
Yucatan pyramid in Chichen Itza, Mexico
The new analysis, based on ancient DNA from the remains of 64 people whom archaeologists believe had been ritually sacrificed and then deposited in an underground chamber, found the victims were all young boys, many of whom were closely related.
Mayan Calendar is not this simple Aztec
“There were two big moments of surprise here,” said lead study author Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher in the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
“We were thinking, influenced by traditional archaeology that we would find, a non-sex-biased burial or mostly girls,” he said.
“And the second one [was] when we found out that some of them were related, and there were two sets of twins.”
The lurid notion that the Maya only sacrificed young women or girls is largely a myth that originated from early and romantic accounts of Chichén Itzá’s sacred sinkhole, or cenote, said Prof. Rubén Mendoza, an archaeologist in the Department of Social Sciences, Behavioral, and Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay (csumb.edu). He wasn’t involved in the study but is an editor of a new book on ritual sacrifice in Mesoamerica [a name for Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, all of which are located in North America]. More
Ancient Aliens: Biblical proof of alien contact (Season 17)
(HISTORY) May 23, 2024: Ancient Astronaut theorists believe that extraterrestrials manipulated human DNA to activate specific parts of the brain to connect with them, in this clip from Season 17, "The Human Experiment."
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Syrian rue? Amanita muscaria? DMT forms
The fruit was not an apple, nor does the Bible ever call it an apple. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil refers to DMT (the Spirit Molecule) and most likely came in the form of a magic mushroom or similar substance.
The Adam (Adama) was a generation of humans, not a man, and Eve (like the softer, darker, Yin energy of our feminine side) was a part of that new generation on Earth (the Garden) or some part of it, most likely more than one place.
Eve was not the first woman; the woman before her was named Lilith.
The "Serpent" was a reptilian humanoid, not a garden snake. (Was this being evil and misleading humans or a Sumerian god trying to free humans from their bondage and ignorance. See the pre-biblical Mesopotamian/Sumerian Enki and Enlil story in the history of humanity).
And the "gods" and "God" were extraterrestrials manipulating genetics to create a race of beings out of previous races and species.
The Jewish-Christian God had a wife; her name was Asherah, Queen of Heaven, and she was worshipped widely throughout polytheistic Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East with poles that depicted her until the great patriarchy smashed all of that and erased or rewrote the record.
Not only is the Bible rewritten, redacted, partially forged, it is still being changed (Mandela Effect and in modern interpretations and translations, going from, for example, the Geneva to the King James Version that banned the previous Geneva version.
In the beginning was not the beginning; there were earlier iterations.
And the process is still going on.
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5 extinct animals we have footage of
(Tsuki) The majority of organisms that have ever existed are now extinct. Most animals have been wiped out by mass extinction events, and some scientists argue that we are currently going through a mass extinction event. Humans have raised the rate of biological extinction. We are losing animals at an astonishing rate. Most animals disappear without a trace. Fortunately, for some recently-extinct animals, footage remains. This video goes through a few of these species, five animals thought to be extinct with only a tiny sliver of hope that at least one of each still survives.
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Tenochtitlan: The Venice of Mesoamerica
(Invicta) The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and its amazing features -- massive temples, aqueducts, zoos, aquariums, and more -- were so advanced compared to anything in Europe at that time, the invaders had to destroy it and burn the codices. Aztec history (documentary)
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
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Aztec perspective on conquest of Mexico
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Giant Pyramids of the Ancient Aztec Empire
(Ancient Cities) Aztec civilization reached its height in the early 16th century. Explore the capital of the empire, Tenochtitlán, home to elaborate yet sacred temples atop gigantic, stepped pyramids.
Witness the majesty of this advanced culture of warriors that has been unearthed below what is modern-day Mexico City by the preeminent archeologists of our time.
Mesoamerican pyramids, pyramid-shaped temple structures of various kinds, are an important part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. These structures were usually step-pyramids with temples on top -- more akin to the ziggurats (terraced block pyramids) of Mesopotamia than to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
The Mesoamerican region's largest pyramid by volume -- indeed, the largest pyramid in the world by volume -- is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla.
The gods rule our lives, my beauty
The Aztecs, a people with a rich mythology and cultural heritage, dominated Central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco -- the site of modern-day Mexico City.
They were related to the preceding cultures in the basin of Mexico such as the culture of Teotihuacan, whose building style they adopted and adapted.
The Maya (Mayans) are a people of Southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and extreme northern El Salvador) with some 3,000 years of history.
Archeological evidence shows the Maya started to build ceremonial architecture approximately 3,000 years ago. The earliest monuments consisted of simple burial mounds, the precursors to the spectacular stepped pyramids from the Terminal Pre-classic period and beyond.
We were lied to by mainstream historians.
These pyramids relied on intricate carved stone in order to create a stair-stepped design. Many of these structures featured a top platform upon which a smaller dedicatory building was constructed, associated with a particular Maya deity.
Maya pyramid-like structures were also erected to serve as a place of interment for powerful rulers. Maya pyramidal structures occur in a great variety of forms and functions, bounded by regional and periodical differences.
The Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians will host their 39th annual Powwow at the Fantasy Springs Resort in Indio, CA, starting Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
The three-day event, with dance and drum competitions as well as other cultural activities, will take place at the resort’s Special Events Center, at 84-245 Indio Springs Parkway.
“The Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians are excited for the return of our Powwow,” Chairman Douglas Welmas said. “We are proud to share our rich tradition of bird singing, which is an oral form of storytelling, as well as showcasing the vibrant regalia, dances, music, song, and history of the indigenous people of North America, not only with other native peoples but with non-native people as well.”
There will also be traditional Native American food, hand-crafted jewelry, dream catchers, and more available for attendees.
Admission is FREE. The event is alcohol and drug-free.
Aztlan: Lost City of Atlantis? Were the Aztecs Atlanteans?
(Viper TV/Gaia.com) What knowledge lies in our ancient past? A team of renowned scholars has come together to go beyond the surface-level myths, artifacts, and mysteries found in ancient texts and lost cities from around the world. Journey to decipher the code scattered throughout ancient civilizations.
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On
a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's
Royal Academy of Music, 20-year-old American flutist Edwin Rist
boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History.
Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the
world, the Tring Museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous
feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the deadly men who shared
Edwin's obsession: the Victorian sport of salmon fly-tying and -fishing.
Once inside
the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins.
Some of them had been
collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them -- and escaped into the
darkness.
Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist
high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told
him about the heist.
He was soon consumed by the strange case of the
feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had
Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins?
In
his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long,
worldwide investigation.
The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking
crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession and man's destructive instinct to harvest/steal the beauty of nature. More
“Absorbing...Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.”
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.”
—Christian Science Monitor
A
rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an
underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers
of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.
(Sarastarlight) "2012: Fall of the Aztec Empire" concerning the Mayan Calendar and the Serpent god of the Cross Returning (Part 1, Part 2: Lost Continents) is a documentary film by Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D. (BrainMind.com)
We are commonly asked about the buildings that remain standing, but most were destroyed. What we see are those in remote areas and those so incredibly massive that it was impossible to destroy them even with cannons.
However, the entire Aztec capital was destroyed. In its place the capital Mexico City was established with hundreds of Catholic churches and cathedrals built over the most significant sites.
We are asked if we believe the world will end in 2012. The answer is unambiguously NO. One cycle of the Mayan calendar ends on 2012 and another begins. Does this mean the Maya believed the world would end. No, not even the calendar ends since it is cyclical. Yet, there is a warning: We must learn from the past. So let those with eyes see.
(LINK) Why do people believe and fear the Mayan calendar's "end" when they will not give the Mayan "creation" the time of day? Genetic manipulation, the great flood, warring extraterrestrial factions, the "Gods" killing off humans wholesale, it's all there in the indigenous Popol Vuh or Mayan creation myth, a campfire version of Earth history.
Just as the Maya postulated an end date, an explanation was given for the beginning. Even before Mesoamerica, ancient India explained the origins of the universe.
The Mesoamerican Maya (aka Mayans) had a great deal of advanced technical knowledge. They used it to build an extremely sophisticated civilization. Their empire expanded in a man made paradise, an extremely fertile jungle. The nagas (feathered serpents, flying dragons, Draco star system beings) who aided them also filled them with a preoccupation with the stars, astrology, and the cycles of time and what these cycles would mean for future generations. The Mayan Calendar states that a new age will begin on December 21, 2012. The date has been disputed since we are not living on Mayan time and have had to transliterate their information to our own Gregorian chronology.
Their architectural feats are unmatched today. We would not be able to build what a culture with no power tools or heavy equipment was able to build with apparent ease. But the Maya were not alone in these feats. Evidence of similar accomplishments are found around the world -- most of them hidden due to a phenomenon known as "forbidden archeology."
This states that what does not make sense according to prestigious and established theories of how cultures evolved, from lower and more primitive to higher and more "modern," are rejected out of hand. One will be drummed out of the field for attempting or speculating something that contradicts current thinking. Such is the state of "unbiased" science and academic politics. The truth may eventually win out, but it would have won out much sooner had it not been hampered by obstacles that have nothing to do with the science.
The world is familiar with the magnificent Stone Age ruins in Buddhist Cambodia (Khmer empire), but we argue about the date choosing to believe the official royal histories of self-aggrandizing kings who claim construction to forward the notion that they were omnipotent. Stonehenge is also widely recognized as nearly impossible to explain (less well known being nearby complexes and burial mounds, not to mention similar sites found even in America).
The exact same thing has happened in Egypt, where pharaohs tore down statues of former rulers, erected their own, and claimed larger (much more ancient) monuments a result of their efforts. It worked. Those rulers basked in the glory of inherited sites too grand to be comprehended even in their time and all the more in ours. Zahi Hawass (Egypt's own Indiana Jones, a megalomaniacal Head of Antiquities, who has now been given a prison sentence for his ongoing outrages) ignores egyptologists and any alternative theories, as if to hide the truth to promote his own opinions.
Less well known are many underwater structures kept hidden, such as those photographed by deep water submersibles and those found in and around India, which has a mythological basis for them but very little formal research funding. Why? Governmental and extra-governmental (military-industrial complex) agencies do not want these widely known.
This brings us back to the Maya and the Mayan calendar. Their sophisticated understanding of time, history, and cyclical ages was not their own. It was handed to them from "on high," as it were, through visitations. We mask it in religious terms because that makes sense to those familiar with Judeo-Christian mythologies. But there is very little spirituality around this, except for the advances advanced civilizations (who have visited this planet) seem to exhibit as part of the evolution of any sophisticated culture. ETs are capable of things we would call miraculous, not only with their machines but in terms of their own organic abilities -- telecommunication, telekinesis, cloaking/invisibility, healing, and so on.
Being so intelligent and advanced, capable of genetic manipulation and war, they had much to say about time. What then did they say about the past, our origins, our creation? Mayan creation myths should be as popular a subject as their scatological myths: "2012, the end of the world." They never said such things, but that's what we hear. Their year 2012 merely marks a 26,000 year cycle that is the end of an age. The world will change. The world has already radically shifted in a relatively short period. Expect more, but the drama of obvious difference on December 22, 2012 is misguided.
Quetzalcoatl will return. A new planet will be announced (not "discovered" since it is already known an in view) in our solar system, and revelations will be made (but not the biblical doom and gloom). That disclosure is taking place even now. India knew thousands of years ago because devas had told humankind, and the Vedas record that knowledge. Sumerians were told. Every great culture that became an empire was told. Only we have been kept in the dark. But even we had the mythology and scripture discussing it. Science liberated us (by rejecting interpretations and editing of sacred texts), and science enslaved us when it was co-opted by powers who saw how easy it was to manipulate by funding and public relations campaigns.
The Vedas explained in very general terms how things began (animation starts at 2:03)
Mayan calendars depict flying dinosaurs and winged serpents. Now scientists at Yale University have found stones with fossilized colored feathers embedded.
Nanostructures preserved in feather fossils more than 40 million years old show evidence that those feathers were once vivid and iridescent in color, paleontologists say. The discovery could pave the way for determining color features of other ancient birds and even dinosaurs, the team said.
Iridescence is the quality of changing color depending on the angle of observation. For example, it gives oil slicks a rainbow sheen. Many insects, such as butterflies, display iridescent colors on their wings, as do many modern birds on their feathers. The simplest iridescent feather colors are produced by light scattering off the feather's surface and a smooth surface of melanin pigment granules within the feather protein.
Scientists found smooth layers of these melanin structures, called melanosomes, when they examined feather fossils from the Messel Shale in Germany with an electron microscope. “These feathers produced a black background with a metallic greenish, bluish or coppery color at certain angles-much like the colors we see in starlings and grackles today,” said Richard Prum of Yale University, who was part of the team that studied the fossils.
For more than 25 years, paleontologists had thought these structures in similar feather fossils were bacteria that had digested the feathers at the time they were fossilized. The team had previously discovered that these structures were in fact not bacteria but melanosomes, which then allowed them to document the original color patterns. Following up on the new finding, they are racing to discover what additional coloration features may be found in fossil feathers.
“The discovery of ultra-structural detail in feather fossils opens up remarkable possibilities for the investigation of other features in soft-bodied fossils, like fur and even internal organs” that otherwise are not typically preserved, said study team member Derek Briggs, also of Yale.
The new findings are detailed in the August 26, 2009 online edition of the journal Biology Letters. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and Yale University.
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