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.
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
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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.
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Sickly IL (pronounced "ill") is Israel (by UN definition, which also calls it ISR) is out to drag a country it has controlled for decades, blackmailing a line of Zionist Christian white male presidents.
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US military dominance does not guarantee victory—and that is the central tension explored in this analysis of a potential illegal attack and protracted war on Iran by vassal state the United States by its dominating client state Israel.
While U.S. and Israeli forces possess overwhelming technological superiority, history tells us that power alone does not determine outcomes. Strategy, flexibility, and political endurance often matter more.
This discussion revisits the 2002 Millennium Challenge simulation, where asymmetric tactics exposed vulnerabilities in conventional military doctrine. The lesson was clear: Smaller powers avoid direct confrontation and instead redefine the battlefield through drones, decentralized strikes, and cost-imposing strategies.
When low-cost systems [like those exhibited by the outgunned Vietnamese] force billion-dollar defensive responses, war becomes an economic contest as much as a military one.
The US War on Vietnam stands as a historical reminder that rigid empires struggle against adaptable adversaries. The broader argument is that any Iranian response would not center on matching strength with strength, but on shaping the terms of engagement—uniting domestic support, building alliances, influencing global opinion, and incrementally weakening the enemy before any ground invasion ever occurs.
In this view, the decisive struggle unfolds long before tanks cross borders. The real question is not who is stronger, but who can adapt faster.
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Look at a map of the USA. The Gulf of Mexico is shown differently in each. Cuba is massive, as big as Florida, but is often minimized. All maps are politicized, which is odd since we now have low-flying satellites 20 miles up that can photograph and give us a real picture. But all "space photos" are manipulated CGI (computer generated images). They are warped, shrunken, expanded, enhanced, etcetera. There are 50,000-year-old pyramids underwater between the continental U.S. and the island nation. The mainland has Cahokia with its pyramid "mounds" in St. Louis, Missouri. A hop over the Gulf, Mexico has extraordinary pyramids in the Yucatan Peninsula and Veracruz.
Meanwhile, madman, convinced he can fly a magic carpet off a cliff, jumps to his death (with a parachute just in case) but ends up flying the carpet down for two minutes at a tremendous speed, safely deploying his parachute and making it safely to the ground, having filmed the entire experience from his POV. One has to see it to believe it and never read stories about Aladdin in the same way: French man leaps off mountainside on a magic carpet and flies thousands of feet down to safety through midair (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
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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
The real name of "Mexico" is actually the United Mexican States and has been for a long time.
Human remains were discovered in Chichén Itzá in 60s (Fred Ihrt/LightRocket/Getty Images)
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Human remains were first discovered in the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá (across the way from US shores on the Yucatan Peninsula in the shared Gulf of Mexico) in the 1960s while workers excavated land to build a proposed airport runway.
In the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind Chichén Itzá, the ancient Maya city in Mexico, ran into a problem: Their excavations had uncovered human remains in the pathway of the proposed runway.
The airport was set to serve V.I.P.s who wanted to visit Chichén Itzá. But with the remains so close to a major archaeological site, the work had to be halted until the bones could be examined.
Any hope for a quick resolution dissolved when archaeologists who were called to the scene uncovered a chultún — an underground rainwater-storage container that, in Maya mythology, was viewed as an entrance to the subterranean [realm of reptilians now called the] land of the dead [location of Atzlan, where the tribes that came to Mexico originated in lore].
Connected to the cistern was a cave containing more than 100 sets of human remains, almost all belonging to children.
Who built this perfect architecture? ETs from?
In a push to finish the airport, researchers were given just two months to excavate and exhume the cache of bones.
Nearly 60 years later, ancient DNA extracted from 64 of the children is offering new insights into the religious rituals of the ancient Maya and their ties to modern descendants.
In a paper published on Wednesday (6/12/24) in the journal Nature, an international cohort of researchers revealed that the children — presumed to be sacrificial victims killed between 500 and 900 A.D. — were all local Maya boys (not virgin girls as we usually are told to imagine) that may have been specifically selected to be sacrificed in sibling pairs.
New DNA analysis of sacrificial Mayan remains changes everything we thought we knew about their rituals (Amaze Lab)
“These are the first ancient Maya genomes to be published,” said Johannes Krause, an archaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The DNA work provided a previously unseen glimpse into the identities of the sacrificed children. “One feels quite moved by such a finding,” Dr. Krause said, noting that he himself has a young son.
The search into the genome of the Maya boys did not start as an exercise in ancient Maya rituals.
Rich pre-Columbian culture we are not told about
In the mid-2000s, Rodrigo Barquera — now an immunogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute — was hoping to discover the genetic legacy of Mesoamerica’s deadliest pandemic.
In 1545, an outbreak of Salmonella enterica spread like wildfire across [Mesoamerica or] what is now Mexico.
Over the next century, the disease killed up to 90 percent of the Indigenous population. Pandemics like these often leave their mark on the immune genes of survivors.
To uncover this genetic legacy, Dr. Barquera and his colleagues needed to compare the DNA from the precolonial remains with that of people who were born after the calamity.
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