Scholar Finds Mayans "Highway To Hell"

Scholar Finds Mayans "Highway To Hell"

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TZIBICHEN CENOTE, Mexico (AP) — Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.

Now a Mexican archaeologist using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish Inquisition says a series of caves he has explored may be the place where the Maya actually tried to depict this highway through hell.

The network of underground chambers, roads and temples beneath farmland and jungle on the Yucatan peninsula suggests the Maya fashioned them to mimic the journey to the underworld, or Xibalba, described in ancient mythological texts such as the Popol Vuh

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Apparently it's been described as right out of an Indiana jones movie lol. It said something about rooms with jaguars and spaces so tight where it was hard to move through without getting slashed by a stalagtite.Says something in there about finding an altar that was dedicated to the "gods of death" .Pretty interesting though ,makes you think how many more of these places there are.(sorry about my spelling if its bad im pretty tired)

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[edit on 9-11-2008 by Sunket]

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Indeed, maybe some gold idols like in 'Welcome to the Jungle'. Loved that movie.