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Maya map of the universe found in Mexico

Step pyramid at Comalcalco archeological site in Tabasco, Mexico (wiki)

A monumental complex built by the Maya of Mesoamerica (Tabasco, Mexico) an estimated 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos (universe), new fieldwork has revealed.

  

Buddhist cosmological mandala layout

A detailed survey of the Aguada Fénix site reveals that not only was the monument significantly larger than initial surveys suggested – laid out in the shape of a cross with axes measuring 5.6 and 4.7 miles (9 and 7.5 kilometers) – but it was also designed as a cosmogram, a kind of Buddhist mandala, an architecture symbolizing the cosmos (Buddhist cosmology, Earthly realms).

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What's even more remarkable about the structure is that the site contains none of the trappings of social inequality, such as elite residences or sculptures of rulers. This strongly implies that egalitarian cultures were capable of monumental building works without the application of coercive force through a stratified social hierarchy ruled by a king or queen.

• Before now, the Maya site of Seibal was thought to be the oldest ceremonial center, dating back to around 950 BCE
• Related: 'Bad Omen': Ancient pyramid in Mexico collapses

Aguada Fénix greenstone object likely depicts a crocodile (Inomata et al., Sci. Adv., 2025).

 

The Maya cosmos mapped out on Earth?

The discovery of Aguada Fénix by way of LiDAR surveys, in the Mexican state of Tabasco near the Gulf of Mexico, was fascinating for a number of reasons.

The first was its size; it was the largest Maya site ever found, even going by the more modest initial estimate of 1.4 kilometers along its longest axis. And it wasn't hidden in the forest, as so many lost Mesoamerican (Mexican), Central American, and South American structures are.

It was under a populated area. Plus, there was the aforementioned lack of evidence for social hierarchy. Largest and oldest Maya monument ever found discovered under Mexico

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• ScienceAlert via MSN; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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Hedonism leads to happiness? A true story from ancient Buddhist texts: The Big Festival

Lives of the Disciples (H. Hecker)

1. YOUTH: Near the capital of the land there were small towns. The youths were born there as privileged Brahmins. One's family claimed important descendants from a town full of Brahmins, a very conservative place.

His father was from the most prominent family. Being high caste and from the town's most respected lineage, his dad acted like a petty king. So he grew up rich and honored, knowing very little about unhappiness or the real world.

He was educated like a [Boston] Brahmin, an education that included being taught about a life beyond this world.

There was another Brahmin family in a neighboring town. On the day he was born, in the other town, another son was also born. When they grew up they became friends and were soon inseparable. Whatever they did, play or study, pleasure or work, they were always together. They didn't quarrel or hold grudges against each other even though their dispositions were very different. One was a pioneer type, daring and enterprising, the other liked to cultivate what he had already gained. One was an only child, the other had three brothers and three sisters.

The Buddha also had chief female disciples

Their friendship meant a lot and filled their daily life, and they liked the other sex, light-hearted and indulging at their youthful age. Each was the leader of a group of friends with lot of high spirited play and sports. When they went swimming, their companions rode horses and others rode around like kings, playboys, enamored by the intoxications of youth, health, riches, and a good life.

In the capital, there was a giant annual celebration full of popular entertainment and amusement, the "Big Festival" on the hill. Of course, the friends all went to enjoy it. They reserved places to watch all the entertainments. When there was something funny, they laughed, when there was something fascinating, they got excited. They enjoyed it all so much that they went back for a second day to watch more performances.

But with the heightening of their expectations, their joyous mood failed. They still went back for a third day, since they had reserved it -- a new program of entertainments. They did not sleep well that night, however, as impressions of the previous partying haunted their minds.

Role of pleasure in hedonism

While laying awake with insomnia, one thought: "What's the use of all this for us? Is there here that's really worthwhile? What's the benefit? Before long, all these glamorous people and actors will be old and decrepit. They will leave life and continue wandering on through existence (samsara), driven by sensuality and other insatiable cravings. And it's the same with us. These people can't even help themselves to solve the problems of their existence. How, then, can they help us? We're just wasting our time here instead of getting any closer to liberation!"

The other friend also had a restless night full of similar thoughts. He reflected how these dramatic performances had something to do with the reality of rebirth, but the joking and frolicking overlaying everything, pretending that there was only this life to worry about, was an artificial suppression, repressing the truth, all full of vain illusions.

On the morning of the third day, they went to their reserved spots at the festival, and one asked the other, "What's the matter with you? You're not your merry self like before. What are you depressed about?"

The other friend replied, "Tell me, what's the use of all these pleasures, all this candy for the eye and ear? It's worthless and useless! I'd rather be on a spiritual quest, searching for a way out, release, freedom, total liberation. The devastating law of impermanence, it all sucks. There has to be a way to liberation from all these fleeting illusions with their temporary allure haunting us and yet leaving us empty. That's what's been going through my head and making me think. Hey, but what you,? You look anything but cheerful!"

His friend replied, "I've been feeling the same as you. Why stay any longer for this BS vanity show? We should seek a way to something that's not BS!"

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When he heard his friend had been thinking the same thing with the same wish, he happily said, "That's wild that we've been thinking the same thing! We've wasted our time and our lives long enough with all these worthless things. If one really wants a path to freedom, one has to leave home and all these possessions that possess us. We should go forth on a quest like pilgrims, free ourselves from the bondage of worldly crap and all this sensuality, rise above it like birds in the sky."

They agreed, and the two friends decided to ditch it all and become spiritual nomads, leading a life of simplicity away from it all, wanderers, on the road, surviving like ascetics.

They wandered around India searching for a guru, a spiritual teacher, or some teaching to guide them. When they had told their friends about their decision, most of those young men were so impressed that they joined them on their spiritual quest. All of them left home, took off their Brahmin threads, cut off their long hair, and put on the earth-colored garments of wanderers. Discarding the marks and signs of their privileged caste, they gave up the class system and entered among the classless ascetics. That's how the journey began.

Where are they today? Bliss of Nirvana

Documentary film on exposition of sacred relics of the Buddha, Sariputta, and Maha Moggallana

In their travels, they met many wandering ascetics and temple priests who had the reputation of being exceptionally wise. They talked about God and the world, heaven and hell, the meaning of life and the way to salvation. But with their keen and critical minds trained as skeptics, they soon realized how empty all of those assertions were and how learned but ignorant these philosophers were. None of them could answer their probing questions. But the two friends were able to reply when questioned. How did the meet the Buddha?

Did this really happen? It really did

Kathak dancing girl in India

This is where it gets personal and a little unbelievable. Following a lifelong wish to visit India and see the Buddhist circuit, I thought it was odd that no one much talked about the second most important place in Buddhist history. Sure, there's Bamiyan, Afghanistan, but people don't know that's the real Kapilavastu unless they read Dr. Ranajit Pal's book Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander. What with an inviting title like that, who's read or even heard of such a thing? The most important place is arguably "Enlightenment Grove" (Bodh Gaya).

Rajgir Hot Springs (Brahmakund) healing waters

But surely the second most desirable place to see and stand on is Vulture's Peak in the royal ringed city of Rajagaha (modern Rajgir), capital of Magadha, a legendary place of a ring of seven hills around an ancient royal city. On pilgrimage there, with its hot spring baths and lightly forested rolling hills, it was hard to believe I had made it. This was it with a commanding view of the area and not a vulture in sight. There have never been vultures here, as the place name is based on rocks that in the shadows look like vultures. Do they? If you squint your eyes, maybe.

Buddhist pilgrims make it to the top of Vulture's Peak, a casual walk in Rajgir (wiki)

From high atop Vulture's Peak (Gijjhakuta), Rajgir, Bihara, India (wiki)

Mulagandha kuti is just below Vulture's Peak ancient brick platform shown here

Theravada Buddhist monastics chant in veneration of seat on Vulture's Peak, Rajgir

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Kathak dancers Rai and Krishna

So much of it remains unchanged with a large Jain and Hindu presence. But I found two Japanese Buddhist complexes to accommodate they annual rush of in-season Buddhist pilgrims. There was even a beautiful monastery/rest house nearby, a great place to meditate under a mosquito net. It was hard to sleep as the night wore on in this rural place because of pounding music. My fellow tourists in another room? Not likely; the place was nearly empty. It happened again on the second and third night when I left my room to explore the ruckus and stumbled on the Hilltop Festival! It's still going on as an ancient annual event. I had no interest in paying to go in or see what passes for "entertainments" in modern India, blaring loudspeaker bhangra music, drums, parades, kathak dancing girls, alcohol, bhang (ganja)...who knows? I didn't go in. I just marveled at the bouncers who night after night kept this assembly going late into the night. For all of India's development and its leaping into modernity, there are things here that are unchanged since the time of the Buddha: ox drawn carts, mud huts, barefoot sadhus, rice harvests, women in saris working the fields, undeveloped rural villages, water buffaloes roaming around, cows treated like royalty, a thousand forms of Hindu worship...and this festival! So much of India has not changed since the British stumbled in and brought the world's largest rail system.

 

Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives

Now at the Royal Ringed City there was an annual event called the Hilltop Festival. Entrance was purchased for the young friends who sat together to witness all the festivities. When there was something funny, they laughed; when the spectacle was exciting, they got excited. And they paid fees for more shows. They enjoyed the fest that day and a second day, but on the third day their understanding started to awaken. They could no longer laugh or get excited, nor did they feel inclined to pay for more like they had on the first two days. Each had the same thought: "What is there to look at here? Within 100 years, everyone here will be dead. What we should do is become spiritual seekers looking for enlightenment." More: The Life of Sariputta by Ven. Nyanaponika Thera

• The Buddha's future chief disciples at the Big Hill Fest by Hellmuth Hecker, edited by Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly
• Venerable friends Sariputta and Maha Moggallana

• A Young People's Life of the Buddha (Ven. Silacara)

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EDC is an electronic dance music (EDM) festival organized by promoter and distributor Insomniac.

The annual flagship event, EDC Las Vegas, is held in May at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and is the largest electronic dance music festival in North America with over 500,000 visitors in 2024 [2].

The event features electronic dance producers and DJs and incorporates a variety of electronic music, including house, techno, drum 'n bass, and dubstep [3].

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In addition to the music, event goers experience 3D superstructures, colorful glow-in-the-dark environments, and LED-lit flora and fauna [4]. There are also interactive art installations throughout EDC, free-roaming carnival performers, and carnival rides for the inner-kids [4]. More

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Ireland's prehistoric site, Europe's largest?

We've more and older archeology than England?

It seems that ancient Irish tales of "hollow hills" (underground caverns in mountains, as in Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" where ogres and supernatural beings dwell) are true. There are hillforts throughout the Emerald Isle. And the largest ever found in Northern Europe has just been uncovered, and it's massive.

Ireland discovery: the largest site ever

What, our pre-Christian roots go way back?

A vast prehistoric settlement hidden in the hills of County Wicklow is forcing archaeologists to rethink how people lived in Ireland more than 2,700 years ago.

What began as a closer look at a single hillfort has revealed a sprawling complex of ramparts, houses, and enclosures that specialists now say may be the largest clustered village ever identified in Ireland and Britain.

The scale of the discovery, and the suggestion that it could be the biggest prehistoric site of its kind in Northern Europe, is already reshaping debates about when urban-style living first emerged on the Atlantic edge of the continent.

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The Wicklow hill that turned into a mega‑site

Baltinglass hillfort archeological site (monumentalireland.ie)

The story starts with a familiar landmark in the Irish landscape, a hillfort in Baltinglass that locals have long known as a dramatic feature above the County Wicklow countryside.

Archaeologists had catalogued it as one of several prominent fortified sites in the region, but new survey work has shown that the hilltop is only the core of a much larger complex.

What once looked like a single enclosure now appears to sit within a dense cluster of prehistoric houses and additional earthworks that extend across the slopes and surrounding ridges. More

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(Katie Halper) Nov. 8, 2025: Activists Sumaya Awad and Beth Miller respond to a rabbi’s accusation that Zohran Mamdani is antisemitic, explaining the NYPD–IDF training link and how criticism of Israel is used to silence justice movements.

• 0:29 Clip: Zionist Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s sermon claiming Zohran’s NYPD–IDF comment is antisemitic
• 3:03 Halper pushes back on the idea that naming genocide is antisemitic
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• 9:58 Halper calls out the hypocrisy of equating Judaism with support for genocide

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Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian New Yorker, writer, organizer and member of NYC-DSA. She is co-editor of "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction."

Beth Miller is the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, where she spearheads the organization’s Congressional advocacy and electoral organizing. She has worked in the movement for Palestinian rights since 2011.

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