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).

What will I wear when I visit? (Crystal Q)

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.

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

Mexico: Zapotec 'Cloud People' tomb found

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• IN THIS STORY: Mexican officials are calling the discovery of a Zapotec (Be’ena’a) tomb one of the country’s greatest archeological discoveries of the last decade.
• The tomb, dated to 600 C.E., features colorful murals that experts hope they can soon decipher.
• Other architectural highlights within the tomb include friezes and carvings in doorposts.

(WDRB News - Official) Mexico unveils 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb and colorful mural

Tomb features colorful murals that experts hope they can soon decipher (Lelia Valduga/Getty)

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Mexican Pres. Lopez Obrador and Sheinbaum

Officials are lauding a newly unearthed tomb, tucked into the Central Valley of Oaxaca [pronounced \wah-hah-kah\] in Mexico [Mesoamerica], as the greatest archeological find made in the country in the last decade.

 

Dated to 600 C.E.—a pre-Hispanic [Pre-Columbian era, pre-arrival of Spain and European Conquistadors] period during which the Zapotec culture ruled the region—experts believe the architectural and cultural meanings they can extract from the find will reveal unknown elements of Zapotec life 1,400 years ago.

Claudi Curiel de Icaza (INAH)

“This is an exceptional discovery due to its level of preservation and what it reveals about Zapotec culture: its social organization, its funerary rituals, and its worldview, preserved in the architecture, and mural paintings,” Mexico’s Secretary of Culture Claudi Curiel de Icaza said in a translated statement from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

The tomb features sculptural elements and mural paintings that contain symbols often associated with power and death, while friezes and tombstones bear inscriptions which appear to reference calendars.

Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum in front of MX flag

“This is the most important archeological discovery in Mexico in the last decade due to its level of preservation and the information it provides,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said at a press conference, according to INAH.

The murals and architecture start at the entrance to the antechamber. An owl, which symbolized night and death for the Zapotec people, covers the painted face of a lord. Experts with INAH believe that the portrait may be of the ancestor to whom the tomb was dedicated. His descendants may have hoped that he would serve as an intercessor with deities. More

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Who are the "Zapotecs," the "Cloud People," how did they build underground?

Zapotec civilization funerary art

The Zapotec civilization (the Be'ena'a or "The people who came from the clouds," circa 700 BC–1521 AD) is an advanced indigenous pre-European (pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic, pre-invasion) civilization that flourished in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica (part of North America above Central America, mostly comprised of modern Mexico). Archaeological evidence shows that their culture, now replaced by Mixtec culture, originated at least 2,500 years ago. The Zapotec archaeological site at the ancient City of Monte Albán has pyramids, monumental buildings, ball courts, tombs, and grave goods, including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Albán was one of the first major cities in Mesoamerica. It was the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of the territory which today is known as the Mexican state of Oaxaca [1, 2]. The Zapotecs are their modern Mexican descendants. More

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Pyramid Review: Exploring Mexican sites

(Pyramid Review) Yaxchilan: The most inaccessible archeological site in Mexico, Jan. 29, 2026

Yaxchilan necropolis ruins (Wikipedia)

Yaxchilan (yacht-chee-lan) is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, near Guatemala (named after the Buddha Gautama plus the word mala or religious beads*). In the Late Classic Period, Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta River, with Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks") as its major rival [1]. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the Usumacinta region demonstrate clear differences that mark a clear boundary between the two kingdoms [1]. More: Yaxchilan, Mexico

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• *How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Rick Fields)

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• An Inglorious Columbus; or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan discovered America in the fifth century, A.D. (Edward Payson Vining, 1847-1920)

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(BBC) Hidden mere meters under Mexico's modern capital, a series of temples, royal palaces, and mysterious artifacts from an ancient kingdom are being unearthed.

As we descended 7 meters (21 feet) below Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral, I could feel my heart race. I had heard whisperings about the temples buried under this iconic cathedral – one of the largest and oldest in Latin America ­– but since their discovery in the 1970s, it had not been possible to see them.

We the Mexica [of Mexico] are not "Aztecs"

Now, I was part of a public tour that lets visitors explore the ancient secrets that lie just below this [Catholic] church’s depths.

Nearly 500 years after Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés toppled the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán [the "Place of Nopal Cactuses"], the remains of the ancient metropolis continue to lay hidden mere meters under modern-day Mexico City.

The Spanish [invaders from Spain] started building the Metropolitan [Catholic] Cathedral in 1573 above on top of the sacred Aztec (the “Mexica” as they called themselves) temples as a symbol of conquest. More

• Mexico City’s secret underground world (BBC)
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Secrets Beneath: The Maya, underworlds

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Scientists discover the real origin of the Olmecs, who were previously supposed to be Blacks arriving from Africa and setting up a civilization on the American continent.

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Mother culture: Olmecs preceded other big civilizations. Nahuatl not Spanish is native language.

In Sept. 1930, NY Times published story of Mexican Sphinx, pyramids, Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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(Mysterious Origins) Before the arrival of the genocidal Spanish in 1519, Mexico and Central America (including Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, and Guatemala) was home to some of the most advanced civilizations in the world, including the Maya, Aztec, Zapotec, and Mixtec peoples.

These civilizations built clean, massive, and complex cities that amazed the Spanish, developed sophisticated writing and calendrical systems, and engaged in extensive trade networks.

Child born of Cortes' rape of Indigenous woman,

producing Isabel Moctezuma and a lineage

We first came from Aztlan overseas/inner earth

However, the Spanish conquest, led by the infamous Conquistador Hernán Cortés, resulted in a dramatic transformation of the region for the worse.

The collision of these two civilizations — indigenous Mesoamerican (southern North American) societies and European imperial ambition — resulted in the creation of modern Latino identity, a blending of indigenous and Spanish/European bloodlines.

What about the ruling ET monsters?

Colonization brought not only a new language, religion, and customs but also a reshaping of political and social structures, often at the expense of indigenous autonomy.

The conquest nearly wiped out these Native groups, but indigenous cultures proved remarkably resilient, influencing everything from language and cuisine to spirituality and artistic traditions.

SOURCES

• sci.news/genetics/native...
• livescience.com/archaeolo...
• fau.edu/newsdesk/articles...

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• What race are Mexican genetically?

World's largest pyramid in Guatemala?

El Mirador ("The Viewpoint or Lookout") is the biggest pyramid in the world, according to Mel Gibson who heard it from archeologist Richard Hansen. Yet, we are told Mexico's Cholula Pyramid is the world's largest -- larger than the famous ones on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, or the many in Sudan (formerly Nubia along the Nile River) known as the Nubian pyramids, or the 200 or more in China, or all the ones we're not told about in Alaska, Antarctica, Mars, the Moon, and all over the planet, like the new one recently discovered in Peru at Caral Supe. Of course, larger ones may exist in Bosnia or Indonesia (Gunung Padang), one being mirrored by the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world, Borobudur in Java, which is likely smaller than the colossal Mes Aynak in formerly Buddhist Afghanistan with stupas but no pyramids yet, even though one pyramidal stupa was recently discovered in Central Asia. Interestingly, according to American Rick Fields in A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, the country next to Mexico called Guatemala is named after Gautama the Buddha. Buddhist missionaries reached the Americas before Columbus and Christianity, as demonstrated in American Edward P. Vining's 1895 classic An Inglorious Columbus, which makes the connection to Afghanistan and Afghan Buddhist missionaries along with Chinese pilgrim Hwui Shen. That the country should be so advanced -- like the stone temples all through the jungles of Buddhist Cambodia (Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, etc.) -- is not entirely without explanation.

• Scientists unearth 3,000 year old [Buddhist] pyramid hidden in Central Asia (The Brighter Side of News)

PSW 2472 Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala: Richard Hansen

• Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson; Richard Hansen; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval. Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexican race mind-blowing DNA results

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Mind-blowing Mexican race and DNA results

Race, ethnicity, nationality, tribe, hair color?

(Evo Inception) Oct. 26, 2024: Here is an in-depth analysis of what makes "Mexican" genetics unique. First, the country is not called Mexico but the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). Who lives there, blended with the Indigenous people, and where did they come from?

TIMECODES

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 0:05 - Who is defined as Mexican?
• 0:58 - Race in Latin America
• 1:23 - Colonial Era
• 2:04 - [Euro-racism] Casta System

Spain brought a racism based on European blood and skin color/shade

• 3:07 - First racial shift
• 6:38 - Spanish dominance
• 8:23 - Mestizos ("Mixed, Blended")
• 10:07 - East Asian influence
• 12:14 - U.S. definition of race

• VIDEO: Mexican Genetics
• RESEARCH: nature.com/articles...

Meet the Redhead Latina: Mexican Ana Saia

• WARNING: Not a real Ginger but just another blond with a bottle of strawberry red dye!
• Beautiful Red Heads (con cabello rojo no de botella pero verdad) 02 (pinterest.com)

(Great Day Houston) The word "Hispanic" encompasses a large group of people whose heritage includes roots from imperial Spain. Especially going south of the border, one soon realizes that it's not related to one color of skin, eyes, or hair.

The way Ana Saia looks throws some people off, but she's Hispanic and calls herself "The Redhead Latina." She shares her Mexican American heritage with over 3,000,000 followers on TikTok.

Her most popular videos include her blond Mexican mom. A so-called No sabo ("I don't know") kid is a child who comes from a Latin or Hispanic family yet speaks little to no Spanish. Because of this, s/he can sometimes be treated as an outsider in the culture.

Saia created a post explaining how to survive a family reunion as a No sabo kid. She grew up listening to Spanish being spoken at home in Las Vegas but continuously works to improve her Spanish skills to clean up that pesky Gringo accento or "English accent" many tend to have due to the culture clash.

As a social media personality, she is often faced with backlash and hateful comments, as if she were an impersonator. But she loves to turn a bad situation upside down. She is advocates against bullying and often finds these situations to be opportunities to help others deal with insecurities.

To watch Ana Saia's videos, follow her on TikTok@saianana tiktok.com/@saianana?lang=en or Instagram@anasaiaofficial. She also makes longer-form videos on YouTube: @saianana. 

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Ask a Mexican! with Gustavo

German Mexican Frida Kahlo hair and makeup tutorial (makeupview.co)

Since 2004, Gustavo Arellano has written the wildly popular -- and wildly politically incorrect -- Ask a Mexican! column in the OC Weekly.

• “Ask a Mexican!”

In each installment, the California-born Arellano answers reader questions about Mexican-American (Chicano/a) mores that rarely get tackled in day-to-day conversation even in blended Alta California.

Ask a Mexican (Gustavo Arellano)

He's discussed whether it's safe to shop for prescription drugs in border towns, why Mexicans eat so many tortillas, and if it's common for Mexican men to wear necklaces bearing their mothers' names. (It's not, cautions Arellano, and probably a sign that a particular hombre has a chica south of the border).

The column, Arellano told Reuters, "started off as a joke. It was supposed to be just a satirical take on xenophobia against Mexicans, and it just exploded." The column now [2011] appears in about three dozen publications and spawned a 2007 collection. (Buy it here).

The column is remarkable not only for its humor and insights but its willingness to talk frankly about topics that usually stifle even the most open conversationalists.

In April 2011, Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with Arellano about U.S. natives' attitudes toward Mexicans, whether half-Mexican Anthony Quinn's performance in Zorba the Greek or Jack Black's Mexican-wrestler turn in Nacho Libre was more offensive, whether Mexicans can or should assimilate, the effect of the Drug War on border relations, and much more.

• Evo Inception, Oct. 26, 2024; Ana Saia, Great Day Houston, April 5, 2024: Gustavo Arellano (OCweekly.com), Reason TV, 2011; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly