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Originally posted by CherryDuck
Alot of people will say it's from asteriods, and shooting stars and all that jazz. But what about the paintings of OTHER BEINGS?!?!?! Not just craft!!
Originally posted by nerbot
If the Spanish had arrived fifty years later all the "believers" would be talking about 2062 maybe.
Originally posted by nerbot
Originally posted by CherryDuck
Alot of people will say it's from asteriods, and shooting stars and all that jazz. But what about the paintings of OTHER BEINGS?!?!?! Not just craft!!
Are cavemen not allowed imaginations too?
Why do you presume everything they created was for fact and concerning reality, why does it have to be of the outside world and why not the inner world?
We humans have become what we are today because of our ability to imagine things that don't exist in our real world and "play" with the things that already exist with our minds. Things get designed, painted, modelled and dreamed of that could then become reality.
And who's to say that caveman wasn't depicting his brother in a mask or his disabled mother or an animal? Because it doesn't appear like a normal human to you or me doesn't automatically make them non-human. And the mayan calendar had to finish somewhere, they didn't last long enough to continue it did they? If the Spanish had arrived fifty years later all the "believers" would be talking about 2062 maybe.
Originally posted by Logical Thinker
No, they didn't last long enough because they just dissappeared. No one knows what happended to them. That is a mystery all in it's own.
gomexico.about.com...
The Maya did not cease to exist when their ancient cities went into decline. They live on today in the same areas their ancestors inhabited. Although their culture has changed over time, many Mayas maintain their language and traditions. There are over 750,000 speakers of Mayan languages living in Mexico today (according to INEGI). Present-day Mayan religion is a colorful hybrid of Catholicism and ancient beliefs and rituals. Some Lacandon Maya still live in a traditional manner in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas.
Originally posted by Logical Thinker
I sort of understand where you are coming from about the calendar and why it has to end and it can't just go on forever, but what I didn't say about the calendar is that is stops exactly on December 22, 2012 at 11:55 PM. Why would they stop the calendar so percisely and not just on a day or a month?
No, they didn't last long enough because they just dissappeared. No one knows what happended to them. That is a mystery all in it's own.
Mayan cities reached their highest state development during the Classic period (c. 250 AD to 900 AD), and continued throughout the Postclassic period until the arrival of the Spanish......
....The Maya peoples never disappeared, neither at the time of the Classic period decline nor with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and the subsequent Spanish colonization of the Americas. Today, the Maya and their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area and maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the merger of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideologies
Originally posted by nerbot
If the Spanish had arrived fifty years later all the "believers" would be talking about 2062 maybe.