Ballgame marker from the classic Lowland Maya site of Chinkultic, depicting a ballplayer in full gear.
Category: MesoAmericas
Mayan End Date / Winter Solstice / Galactic Alignment
The Midwinter Sun crosses the galactic equator very close to the galactic centre, the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. It means the Winter Solstice Sun, the Earth, the Sun and the Galactic centre are lined up. Traditionally, this can be seen to mark the beginning of a new 26,000 year cycle of precession, what…
Maya Sun God as Shark, Blood Drinker and Jaguar
Excerpt from National Geographic. In El Zotz some 1,600 years ago in what is now Guatemala, the Temple of the Night Sun was a blood-red beacon visible for miles and adorned with giant masks of the Maya sun god as a shark, blood drinker, and jaguar. The sides of the temple are decorated with 5-foot-tall…
Mayan King on Stone Panel at La Corona, Guatemala
7th-century Maya hieroglyphs found at La Corona, Guatemala
Mayan Ball Court: Science, Religion & Architecture in One
Archaeologists have found the Mayas built structures on top of the ball court at Chichen Itza to observe the equinoxes and solstices. They have determined the sun shines through slit-like openings during the winter solstice when the setting sun touches the horizon. It appears to be one of a kind and coincidentally the Chichen Itza ball court is the…
God of Death
Mayan End of World Prediction Explored in Film
Museum of Natural Science in Houston explores the Mayan endate. Sumners says the end of Maya time periods generally were regarded the same way we look at such things as the start of a new century or a new millennium. “It seems to be a cause of celebration. There does not seem to be any…
Mayan Pyramids Reflect Quetzal Chirps
The piramids in Mesoamerica reflect the chirp of the quetzal birds. Clap your hands in front of the Temple of Kukulcan in Chichen Itza and the echo comes back as a chirp. The builders intentionally built the temples to do this. This spans several sites including Uxmal, Chichen Itza, and Teotihuacan to name a few….
Ancient Maya Temples Acoustics
As anyone who has visited the ancient Mayan and Aztec sites in Mexico might have noticed, in most of the places the architecture of the buildings produce the effect of amplifying someones voice if they speak above a certain volume. It has been built into the buildings and walls and other structures. Recently researchers have looked into this phenomenon…