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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Walk like Mayan in Mexico: ET pyramids?
Mexican pyramids in Teotihuacan, the Pyramid of the Sun (MSN)
The pyramids of Mexico take the basic principles of the traditional pyramidal structure to the next level. Some are stepped. Others are covered with niches. Most are topped by temples. One in Chichen Itza was built so that the shadow of a giant reptilianserpent appears to be slithering up its staircase during equinoxes.
WARNING: Strange storm (hurricane) heading from Gulf of Mexico west-northwest toward Mexican coast; usually the move north to USA
We didn't have sex with ETs; they had sex...
Archaeologists discover what no one was supposed to see
Mexican who plays an alien (Lynda Carter Cordova)
Miscegenation is a kind of sex, one that is often forbidden. The uncovering of new artifacts does not always lead to a clearer understanding of the past. They often deepen the mystery. Some discoveries raise more questions than they answer. Each new find adds to the complexity of our historical narrative. MSN
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The USA never invaded Mexico but did invade Spain's empire and steal land for itself.
I'm La Mexican Barbie with a bullied brain, searching for a future but I'm just a game.
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Who built this empire and civilization?
Even when mummified space alien extraterrestrial bodies are on display, we turn away.
Could one of the oldest Mexican pyramids, the Great Pyramid of La Venta in Tabasco be a Buddhist-style stupa or burial mound (barrow, tumulus, kurgan)? The pyramid is on the island of La Venta, and while it may be the least spectacular of Mexico’s great pyramids, it is probably the most ancient.
Just across the Gulf from Louisiana, USA, is Mexico's Yucatan and El Castillo pyramid
It seems like nothing more than a 100-foot-high mound of earth and clay, but it is the focal point of La Venta's ceremonial plaza, an ancient Olmec Empire city that flourished on the island between 800 and 400 BC. Archaeologists have speculated that it may well house the tomb of a great Olmec ruler, possibly not fully human. More
The Buddhist Connection
How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America
(Feb. 8, 2022) Americans Rick Fields and Benjamin Bogin have earned 4.7 out of 5 stars with 9 ratings (4.8 stars with 44 ratings in previous edition). A modern classic unparalleled in scope, this sweeping history unfolds the story of Buddhism's spread to the West.
How the Swans Came to the Lake opens with the story of Asian Buddhism, including the life of the historical Buddha and the spread of his teachings, or Dharma, from proto-India to Southeast Asia, Afghanistan (Gandhara), China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and elsewhere.
Coming to the modern era, the book tracks how Western colonialism in Asia served as the catalyst for the first large-scale interactions between Buddhists and Westerners.
Author Rick Fields discusses the development of Buddhism in the West through key moments such as Transcendentalist fascination with Eastern religions; immigration of Chinese and Japanese people to the United States; the writings of D. T. Suzuki, British Californian Alan Watts, and members of the Beat movement; the publication of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki; the arrival of Tibetan lamas in America and Europe; and the influence of Western feminist and social justice movements on Buddhist practice.
This fortieth anniversary edition features both new and enhanced photographs as well as a new introduction by Fields’s nephew, Buddhist Studies scholar Benjamin Bogin, who reflects on the impact of this book since its initial publication and addresses the significant changes in Western Buddhist practice in recent decades. More
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