Professor Valentini ("Maya Archæol.," p.
It is a curious fact that at an equally early date we find a phonetic alphabet in Central America amongst the Mayas of Yucatan, whose traditions ascribe the origin of their civilization to a land across the sea to the east.
Le Plongeon, the great authority on this subject, writes: "One-third of this tongue (the Maya) is pure Greek.
or who took to Greece that of the Mayas?
Is Maya?
or are they coeval?" Still more surprising is it to find thirteen letters out of the Maya alphabet bearing most distinct relation to the Egyptian hieroglyphic signs for the same letters.
One more point may be noticed, viz., the extraordinary resemblance between many words in the Hebrew language and words bearing precisely the same meaning in the tongue of the Chiapenecs—a branch of the Maya race, and amongst the most ancient in Central America.
appears to have been written about 3,500 years ago, among the Mayas of Yucatan, and the following is its description of the catastrophe that submerged the island of Poseidonis:—"In the year 6 Kan, on the 11th Muluc in the month Zac, there occurred terrible earthquakes, which continued without interruption until the 13th Chuen.
Maya (illusion) clouds the realization of Brahman by creating the false sense of separation, which leads to the belief in a personal identity.
The Self alone exists, and when people identify with physical or psychological traits, they fall under the illusion of Maya.
In the Maya city of Tulum, gods are depicted descending from the sky with wings.
Cayce places the Hebrew tribes inside the composite identity of the Atlantean Iltar settlers themselves, who then declined into the Mound Builders while retaining a mixed Maya-related character.
Evidence: The Popol Vuh of the Quiche Maya describes a great flood that wiped out a previous creation.
The Quiche (K'iche') legends, particularly those recorded in the Popol Vuh, describe the history and cosmology of the Maya civilization.
Popol Vuh: The Popol Vuh is the most comprehensive source of Quiche Maya mythology and history.
This journey symbolizes the rebirth and foundation of a new era for the Maya people.
In another story, told by peoples of New South Wales, the seven sisters are beautiful women known as the Maya-Mayi, two of whom are kidnapped by a warrior, Warrumma, or Warunna.
Does the 26,000-year cycle discussed by the Maya connect to all this?
He extends this influence to ancient American civilizations, such as the Aztecs and the Maya.
According to the Phoenicians, the art of writing was invented by Taautus, known to the Egyptians as Thoth, or "the first Hermes." This figure is associated with Maia, a daughter of Atlas, and the Maya of Central America (Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations," p.
Surprisingly, Central America had its own phonetic alphabet, as demonstrated by the Maya alphabet.
The Mayas, who claim their civilization came from across the sea from the east (Atlantis), inherited their alphabet from the Colhuas, whose era ended around 1000 BCE.
When comparing the Maya alphabet with the European alphabets, several similarities are evident.
For instance, the letter "h" in Maya is simplified in a manner similar to the archaic Greek and Hebrew forms.
The Maya "o" resembles the circular forms used in Phoenician and other alphabets.
Other letters, such as "k," "n," and "t," also show significant resemblances between the Maya and ancient European alphabets.
This can be seen in the transformation of the Maya "pp" to simpler forms found in European alphabets.
Comparing individual letters, such as "q," "c," "g," "p," and "l," between the Maya and European alphabets reveals a pattern of simplification and adaptation.
These letters, along with others like "b," "e," "i," and "m," demonstrate a clear lineage from the Maya hieroglyphs to the phonetic signs used in the Old World.
The numerous resemblances between the Maya and European alphabets suggest a common origin, likely from Atlantis.
If the alphabet of the Phœnicians is kindred with the Maya alphabet, as I think is clear, then the Phœnicians were of the same race, or of some race with which the Mayas were connected; in other words, they were from Atlantis.
Verbal similarities between ancient European and American languages, such as Pan and Maya, suggest a shared linguistic heritage.
These dialects are well marked members of the Maya linguistic stock, and differ from that language, as it is spoken in its purity in Yucatan, more in phonetic modifications than in grammatical structure or lexical roots.
Such, however, is the fixedness of this linguistic family in its peculiarities, that a most competent student of the Cakchiquel has named the period of two thousand years as the shortest required to explain the difference between this tongue and the Maya.
The same blending of their most ancient legends with those borrowed from the Aztecs, recurs in the records of the pure Mayas of Yucatan.
Like the Mayas and Aztecs, they were a race of builders, skillful masons and stone-cutters, erecting large edifices, pyramids, temples, and defensive works, with solid walls of stone laid in a firm mortar.
In a study of this subject, published during the present year, I have set forth their various terms employed in this branch of knowledge, and compared their system with that in use among the Mayas and the Aztecs.
But I am not aware that any example or description of it has been preserved, which would enable us to decide the highly important question, whether their system was derived from that of the Mexicans or that of the Mayas, between which, as the antiquary need not be informed, there existed an almost radical difference.
The year was not divided into lunar months, as was the case with the hunting tribes, but in a manner similar to the highly artificial and complicated system that prevailed among the Mayas and Mexicans.
This allotted to the solar year twenty months of eighteen days each, leaving a remainder of five days, which the Mexicans called nemontemi, insufficient; the Mayas n yail kin, days of pain or of peril, and the Cakchiquels api ih, days of evil or days at fault; and which were not included in the count of the months.
To this day, their relatives, the Mayas of Yucatan, attach implicit faith to the revelations of the zaztun, the divining stone kept by their sorcerers, and if it decrees the death of any one, they will despatch him with their machetes, without the slightest hesitation.
The Cakchiquel Annals do not pretend to deal with mythology, but from various references and fragments inserted as history, it is plain that they shared the same sacred legends as the Quiches, which were, in all probability, under slightly different forms, the common property of the Maya race.
In the Cakchiquel Annals, as in the Popol Vuh and the Maya Chronicles, we hear of the city of the sun god, Tulan or Tonatlan, as the place of their origin, of the land Zuiva and of the Nonoalcos, names belonging to the oldest cycles of myths in the religion of the Aztecs.
In the first volume of this series I have discussed their appearance in the legends of Central America, and need not refer to them here more than to say that those who have founded on these names theories of the derivation of the Maya tribes or their ruling families from the Toltecs, a purely imaginary people, have perpetrated the common error of mistaking myth for history.
Columbus encountered the Mayas in a large, sail-equipped vessel, indicating a knowledge of sailing.
Augustus Le Plongeon, working with Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, excavated in Yucatán and built a diffusionist Maya-Egypt trail.
His Maya court narrative names Chaacmol (Coh), Aac, and Queen Moo from Chichen Itza and Uxmal iconography.
In that reading Egypt’s founding is tied to Queen Moo as a Mu refugee, with other refugees reaching Maya Central America.
On his tablet discovery claim, Churchward recounted discovering ancient clay tablets in India, written in a mysterious “Naga-Maya language.” Those tablets, he claimed, originated from Mu.
That is his Naacal (Naga-Maya) tablet source layer.
Churchward: Pacific, from Hawaii-Mangaia and Marianas-Easter spans, with Naga-Maya tablets as his source claim.
Contradicting Darwinian and Newtonian evolutionary theories, Calleman proposes that human evolution occurs in quantum leaps, following geometric patterns pre-described by the ancient Maya.
This cosmic axis, embodying dualism akin to yin and yang, aligns with the number nine, a significant figure in various global creation myths and understood mathematically by the Maya.
While Maya tradition in the Popol Vuh shares similarities, depicting four creations focused on forming humans from mud, wood, flesh, and maize, the Five Suns framework is distinctly Aztec, possibly influenced by earlier Mesoamerican ideas including Maya ones.
The temple complex was built by the ancient Mesoamerican civilization of the Olmecs and later expanded by the Maya and Toltecs.
In the traditions of the Maya civilization, Kukulkan was considered a god of wind, rain, and learning, as well as a patron of cities and merchants.
Kukulkan played a significant role in the religious beliefs of various Mesoamerican cultures, including the Maya and the Aztecs.
Although Kukulkan was mentioned as a historical person by Maya writers of the 16th century, the earlier 9th-century texts at Chichen Itza never identified him as human and artistic representations depicted him as a Vision Serpent entwined around the figures of nobles.
Pakal, also known as K'inich Janaab' Pakal or Pacal the Great, was a prominent ruler of the Maya city-state of Palenque (in modern-day Mexico) during the 7th century.
The elaborate sarcophagus lid in the Temple of the Inscriptions depicts Pakal's image in a vivid and intricate manner, showcasing his importance and the Maya belief in the afterlife.
His dynasty continued to rule Palenque for several generations after his death, leaving a lasting legacy in the history of the ancient Maya civilization.
In common with the rest of Mesoamerica, the Maya believed in a supernatural realm inhabited by an array of powerful deities who needed to be placated with ceremonial offerings and ritual practices.
At the core of Maya religious practice was the worship of deceased ancestors, who would intercede for their living descendants in dealings with the supernatural realm.
Maya ritual included the use of hallucinogens for chilan, oracular priests.
As the Maya civilization developed, the ruling elite codified the Maya world view into religious cults that justified their right to rule.
The Maya viewed the cosmos as highly structured.
Belief in supernatural forces pervaded Maya life, from the simplest day-to-day activities such as cooking, to trade, politics, and elite activities.
Maya deities governed all aspects of the world, both visible and invisible.
The Maya priesthood was a closed group, they were recording increasingly complex ritual information in their hieroglyphic books, including astronomical observations, calendrical cycles, history and mythology.
On 12 July 1562, Diego de Landa had burned all the books and images of the Maya gods, which he was able to seize, at an inquisitorial court of law, an “autodafé,” in Mani, south of Merida.
The Paleoindian period in the Maya region (c.
In 2020 scientists discovered the largest known ancient Maya ceremonial structure, a platform roughly 1.4 kilometers long, 400 meters wide and 10 to 15 meters high.
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples from the platform revealed it was constructed it was covered between 1000 and 800 B.C., which also makes it the oldest known ancient Maya ceremonial structure.
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In the early colonial period, an unknown nobleman from the Kʼicheʼ Maya people transcribed the Popol Vuh, using the Latin script.
Across five countries—Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico—there are numerous Maya sites, totaling in the hundreds.
In Belize, important Maya sites include Altun Ha, Caracol, and Xunantunich.
But according to the Popol Vuh, the Book of the Maya, man first emerged only in the fourth divine creation, after three previous worlds had been destroyed by awesome catastrophes.