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09-03-2007, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman  Did you see that Mel Gibson movie about the Mayans? I can't recall the name of the movie, but it was done with actual Mayan actors and Mayan language. | Apocalypto, yes. It was pretty good. But I'm not sure about the ending (with the Europeans landing).
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09-03-2007, 07:36 PM
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Level up: 10%, 8 Points needed | | Wow. This is awesome. 
Anyone read the book 2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck? I bought it about a year and a half ago and thought it interesting... just, interesting in the way that stories about UFO's, crop circles, Phi, an intro to Quantum Physics, hallucinogens, and shamanism are all interesting. Oh, and it talks about all of those too.
Look, it's been said before, and will be said again. The winter solstice of 2012 is not the last day we will be celebrating... it's just a day some people may choose to celebrate (especially if you're Wiccan.) It's a like a galactic birthday of sorts. It will come and it will pass.
If you don't believe me, I'll get back to you in just a little over four years about it.
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09-04-2007, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Katczinsky Apocalypto, yes. It was pretty good. But I'm not sure about the ending (with the Europeans landing). | I thought you did when you mentioned tossing headless bodies down the temple. They way the Mayans treated each other you'd almost think the Europeans arriving would be a blessing. | |
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09-04-2007, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman I thought you did when you mentioned tossing headless bodies down the temple. They way the Mayans treated each other you'd almost think the Europeans arriving would be a blessing. | Human sacrifice was nothing new to the Mayans - but when the Europeans arrived and burned them, murdered them and then (albeit inadvertently) infected them with unknown Western diseases, it must have felt like more of the same! I can't imagine they were seen as liberators. | |
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09-04-2007, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Fluffmeister Human sacrifice was nothing new to the Mayans - but when the Europeans arrived and burned them, murdered them and then (albeit inadvertently) infected them with unknown Western diseases, it must have felt like more of the same! I can't imagine they were seen as liberators. | I wasn't sure what the Europeans did to the Mayans after they arrived, but your description certainly sounds typical. | |
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09-04-2007, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman I wasn't sure what the Europeans did to the Mayans after they arrived, but your description certainly sounds typical. | Actually, the Mayans were long gone by the time the Europeans arrived.
It was the Aztecs that the Spaniards defeated in Mexico, and the Incas in South America. | |
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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady Actually, the Mayans were long gone by the time the Europeans arrived.
It was the Aztecs that the Spaniards defeated in Mexico, and the Incas in South America. | I got my first taste of Mayan life when I visited Cancun in 1990. So much different that Baja California/Tijuana, Mexico.
I visited the ruins at Chichen Itza, and the ball court there, too. Just fascinating. 
The charter bus ride between Cancun and Chichen Itza was well worth the time, too. Riding on the way back to Cancun, the people there had TV and VCR's, with wiring protected by thick tubing from the weather elements.
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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady Actually, the Mayans were long gone by the time the Europeans arrived.
It was the Aztecs that the Spaniards defeated in Mexico, and the Incas in South America. | Then the movie "Apocalypto" was inaccurate as it ended with the arrival of Europeans. | |
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09-04-2007, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by highway80west I got my first taste of Mayan life when I visited Cancun in 1990. So much different that Baja California/Tijuana, Mexico.
I visited the ruins at Chichen Itza, and the ball court there, too. Just fascinating.
The charter bus ride between Cancun and Chichen Itza was well worth the time, too. Riding on the way back to Cancun, the people there had TV and VCR's, with wiring protected by thick tubing from the weather elements. |
Next time you can get your heart cut out and your head chopped off atop the temple to "get a feel" for authentic Mayan life. (just kidding) | |
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman Next time you can get your heart cut out and your head chopped off atop the temple to "get a feel" for authentic Mayan life. (just kidding) | Uh, you want to experience that before anyone does? 
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