#MAYAN CIVILISATION

[titan-god-helios]

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY HERE WE GO SO recently ive been doing a shit ton of research and all on autism and adhd and ended up with a pretty freaking solid self-diagnosis of both and that made me hyperfixate on the topic even more and i think at this point its become a special interest for me AND JUST AAAA I LOVE LEARNING ABOUT THIS SHIT SO MUCH although, having audhd, all my knowledge is like having an enormous library with no organisation or archival tools to my disposal at all and instead whenever a specific bit of info is prompted into my brain by a convo or stimulus the corresponding book on the shelf wiggles n shuffles around a little and i have to go sprint to get it before the shuffling stops and i cant find the book anymore so thats fun BUT ONE FACT JUST RANDOMLY IS THAT AROUND 65% OF ADHDERS HAVE DIAGNOSTIC SYMPTOMS OF ADHD AND FOR AUTISTICS THE NUMBER GOES TO 85% WITH ADHD DIAGNOSTIC SYMPTOMS AND ALSO THAT THIS IS VERY LIKELY BECAUSE 5% OF THE WORLD ARE ADHDERS, WHILST ONLY SOMETHING LIKE 2% OF THE WORLD ARE AUTISTICS and another special interest ive had for a while now is tmnt (teenage mutant ninja turtles) and its one of the biggest comfort franchises//shows for me ever as a kid i watched nearly all the gens of the show, scoured youtube on my mum's phone for all the episodes, badly recorded from someone's tv, official clips that i pieced together, reposts of the actual episodes and so on and i had t-shirts and fanart galore, not to mention the copious amounts of time id spend ranting about the show and daydreaming about being the the turtles' best friend along with april and thinking about inventing and researching with donnie and playing hockey with motherfucking casey jones and being the brains behind their brawn and just hanging out and doing cool stuff i adored it and then that kinda chilled for a bit - i still was passionate as fuck about it, it just took up less of my mind as the world took up more, and then a month or two ago BAM i learned about the newest gen (rottmnt//rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles) and i scrolled through related hashtags for DAYS on tumblr and i reawakened that special interest and now im working my way through the show and IM SO HAPPY OHMYGOODNESS I CANT STOP TALKING ABOUT IT EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ooooooo another childhood until now special interest: harry potter i love that shit so much and the fact that j.k rowling inspired me, a queer, trans person to become a writer because i adored the power her writing had over me and my emotions and i wanted to make other people feel like that simply by being creative, and then she fucked it all up by being a transphobic bitch still doesnt sit right with me regardless, i still adore the franchise and the books and i will never not love them with all my heart and while i need to reread the series, i could tell you a lot of smaller details and theories and everything about it and when i was smaller i had a whole ass friendship that was built on not shutting up about harry potter and then we only ever spoke about harry potter or played games relating to harry potter (even though i generally hated playing pretend with other people, she was really headstrong and decided things so there was no grey area where one person didnt understand and THATS what i didnt like with mutual pretend play for the most part so yeah) im not sure if this qualifies as a SpIn, but i also have an obsession with learning as many home remedies or symptoms or quick fixes for several ailments of everyday life (joint pains, sore throats, headaches, cramps, period cramps, maybe even depressive episodes or shutdowns or burnout or panic attacks and so on). like at this point i could be a barely successful witch doctor or something i love it my boyfriend's started calling me dr. ash/elio too whichiscuteasfuckandiloveit AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW OML

Alright folks this was fun the first time so lets do it again. Tell me about your hyperfixation and/or special interest. Share as much as you want, go ahead and infodump to me because i love hearing about peoples passions ❤️

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[ringhoarder]

Every time I see an ancient civilization being portrayed as barbaric I want to tear my hair out

[jagzii]

"Tell me why almost every time I learned about a new civilization growing up, I simultaneously learned about its destruction thanks to imperial expansionism. Because the first time I learned about the Mayans was in the context of the Spanish arriving in Meso-America in the 16th century and promptly fucking everything up. Finding out about that was so depressing that I never bothered to look any closer. All of that is changing today because it turns out the Mayan civilization had already experienced a collapse centuries before the Spanish arrived– known as the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization."

Read the rest here:

[bernievm]

Imagine discovering that a vase you bought for a few dollars at a thrift store in US and is actually a priceless artifact from ancient Maya civilisation!

This is the incredible story of a woman from Maryland who stumbled upon an ancient treasure, hidden in plain sight among second-hand items.

The ancient Maya vase thrifted by chance is now returned to the Museum in Mexico City, shedding light on its significant historical context and value. Originating from the Maya Classic period (circa 250-900 CE), the vase exemplifies the intricate artistry and cultural richness of the Maya civilization. Such artifacts are invaluable for understanding Maya society, religious practices, and daily life. The repatriation of this vase helps preserve cultural heritage and allows scholars to study and display a genuine piece of history in its rightful home.

Read more at Smithsonian Magazine.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/woman-thrifted-this-ancient-maya-vase-180984618/

[olowan-waphiya]

A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.

The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.

The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals.

The area lies in the shadow of a volcano that created rich local soils but also may have led to the destruction of the society.

While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.

"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation," says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.

"It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land - this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies," says co-author Antoine Dorison.

The city was built around 2,500 years ago, and people lived there for up to 1,000 years, according to archaeologists.

It is difficult to accurately estimate how many people lived there at any one time, but scientists say it is certainly in the 10,000s if not 100,000s.

The archaeologists combined ground excavations with a survey of a 300 sq km (116 sq mile) area using laser sensors flown on a plane that could identify remains of the city beneath the dense plants and trees.

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"The road network is very sophisticated. It extends over a vast distance, everything is connected. And there are right angles, which is very impressive," he says, explaining that it is much harder to build a straight road than one that fits in with the landscape.

The scientists also identified causeways with ditches on either side which they believe were canals that helped manage the abundant water in the region.

There were signs of threats to the cities - some ditches blocked entrances to the settlements, and may be evidence of threats from nearby people.

Researchers first found evidence of a city in the 1970s, but this is the first time a comprehensive survey has been completed, after 25 years of research.

It reveals a large, complex society that appears to be even bigger than the well-known Mayan societies in Mexico and Central America.

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Some of the findings are "unique" for South America, he explains, pointing to the octagonal and rectangular platforms arranged together.

The societies were clearly well-organised and interconnected, he says, highlighting the long sunken roads between settlements.

Not a huge amount is known about the people who lived there and what their societies were like.

Pits and hearths were found in the platforms, as well as jars, stones to grind plants and burnt seeds.

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Prof Rostain says he was warned against this research at the start of his career because scientists believed no ancient groups had lived in the Amazon.

[callester]

Observations made on Mission 104's storyline settings.

Mysterious Plant

• Features

The plant's features are a combination of a few carnivorous plants that inhabit the rainforests, which occupy lands near the Earth's Equator.

Stigma - Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus Titanum)

Petals - Rafflesia (Rafflesia Arnoldii)

Body - Pitcher Plant (Nephentes Rajah)

• Geschocran (ゲツショクラン, getsushokuran)

Through a few attempts and references of finding out the possible Kanji words referred as Katakana characters in the flower's name, the possibilities are:

Getsu (月, ゲツ) - Moon

Shoku (植, ショク) - Plant

Ran (蘭, ラン) - Orchid

But since Japanese is not my first language and the interpretations done here could be a little off, it serves as an exercise in the learnt language.

• Witch's Crib (魔女の寝床, majou no nedoko)

The word "寝床" may translate as either a "bed" or a "crib", where if taken as literal had meant a witch's sleeping place.

Another take on the word "crib" in its archaic use would be "one's resting place", where it may refer to the place for those who lost their lives. Taking into consideration of the cauldron-like shape of the flower's body and it's carnivorous plants' inspired features, the flower's name may indicate the victims that fell into its trap and ended up being drowned in the said cauldron-like area (a shared trait of most carnivorous plants).

Ancient Builds, Chichen Itza

The snippet of the older civilisation's building shown resembles that of the Chichen Itza, with the Temple of Kukulcan on its centre.

In a possible symbolism, the snake that appeared in this chapter may refer to the said temple being dedicated to the Mayan Feathered Serpent deity, Quatzalcoatl.

Equinox's Sun Alignment

• Temple of Kukulcan

The setting sun during the spring and the autumn equinox casts a shadow illusion of the Feathered Serpent descending the temple.

• Angkor Wat

On a similar occasion of the spring and the autumn equinox, one could see the sun rising above the building's central lotus tower from the perspective of the western entrance.

Note: To some, this chapter may come off as bland. But to those who appreciate both geography and history, this release gives off an additional take on the author's skills in weaving the intricate details of realistic elements into his worldbuilding ventures that thus add in the depth of this series all while building up the main tale. And standing by the latter perspective, it's an impressive take by the author while expanding the series' characters.

[kncxsmy]

I’ve recently found myself on several occasions falling down a rabbit hole of lost civilisations — the lost city of Babylon; the Mayan civilisation; Rapa Nui of Easter Island; the Anasazi civilisation — how mind spinning that these civilisations disappeared and the knowledge they’d discovered that was lost with them. The residents of Babylon held knowledge of the cosmos over 1000 years ago that we don’t even have to this day. Fascinating.

[talonabraxas]

Hongos Sagrados. "Cure yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, with neem and eucalyptus. Sweeten yourself with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a touch of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar, and take it looking at the stars."

Maria Sabina (via the Santitos) 🍄 Mushroom stones dating from 3000 BC were used in ritual contexts across Mesoamerica and into South America. The majority were found in Guatemala in the highlands or in areas along the intercontinental mountain range which were heavily influenced in Pre-classic times by the Olmec culture. 🍄 The Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Aztec and Inca all used hallucinogenic mushrooms as a catalyst for spiritual insight, poetry and philosophy. To this day the Mazatec use them ritualistically and primarily to cure illnesses. Additionally, much like the early religions and philosophies of Eurasia and their sacred, mediating substance called Soma (see previous post on Scythians), these transcendental substances were undeniably at the very core of all world religions. 🍄 It is suggested that European ideas of heaven and hell may well derive from the same cult mysteries. Tlaloc, the mayan rain and mushroom god was created by lightening, so was Dionysus; in Greek folklore as in Mazatec, so are all mushrooms - proverbially called ‘flesh of the gods' in both languages. Tlaloc wore a serpent crown, so did Dionysus. Tlaloc has an underwater cave, so did Dionysus… 🍄 What all these cultural links seem to suggest is that entwined within the physical world is a realm concealed to ordinary sight. Just as Maria Sabina claimed that all her poetry was not hers but was given to her by the mushrooms, so too the most ancient living traditions claim that their knowledge is not their own but was handed down to them from much older civilisations - sometimes in the form of pure, non-material consciousness. art by Ventral is Golden

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

Despite how much I dislike Marvel's rewriting of things one thing I will forever stand by is how they recreated Namor for Black Panther Wakanda Forever. Cause they changed nothing that is integral to his character, left his powers and his motivations alone but changed his culture to make even more sense.

I am from Texas and have lived in areas heavily dominated by Mexican Immigrants my entire life, I know a lot about their history of colonization. They wrote it so perfectly, and I have never seen someone make a cosplay faster than one of my Native-Mayan friends.

Cause they kept the character but changed his meaning. A lot of the fuck ups have been changing the core of the character, but not Namor, he's ✨️perfect✨️

I won’t say anything solely because I am down nasty for Namor and I can’t form a valid response. Like nooo don’t drag me to your underwater civilisation and make me your concubine noooo

[worlds-of-imaginations]

Cyclical end of the world…

In every era there was a belief in the coming end of the world; In the Middle Ages, the year 1500 was often considered the end date. Monumental cathedrals and Gothic churches were built with hope, in Gdańsk (Poland) the largest brick temple in the world was built for almost 150 years to postpone the end of time… Earlier dates of antiquity were often close to or coincident with real temporary apocalypses like plagues decimating entire countries. The Mayans believed that the great flood or other global catastrophe occurs cyclically every now and then. However, after the apocalypse, the new world is reborn and people learn anew and build civilization again. Following this line of thought, cavemen would be the remnants of ancient societies and this would explain where the "cavemen" knowledge about the stars comes from and where very early astronomical structures like the famous Stonehedge come from. Just like in Mayan legends; humanity locally even globally always regenerates but do we have any influence on such an apocalypse? Our belief that we live in exceptionally difficult times is nothing new. Maybe the question should actually be; "What can we do to not learn forever anew but to learn now to live in harmony with ourselves and the world around us? Here and now.

[female-malice]

Researchers first found evidence of a city in the 1970s, but this is the first time a comprehensive survey has been completed, after 25 years of research.

It reveals a large, complex society that appears to be even bigger than the well-known Mayan societies in Mexico and Central America.

"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation," says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.

"It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land - this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies," says co-author Antoine Dorison.

The city was built around 2,500 years ago, and people lived there for up to 1,000 years, according to archaeologists.

It is difficult to accurately estimate how many people lived there at any one time, but scientists say it is certainly in the 10,000s if not 100,000s.

Researchers first found evidence of a city in the 1970s, but this is the first time a comprehensive survey has been completed, after 25 years of research.

It reveals a large, complex society that appears to be even bigger than the well-known Mayan societies in Mexico and Central America.

[charring58]

#Tlāloc is a pan-Mesoamerican god of rain and earthly fertility. Principally recognised as a chief deity of the #Aztec (or Mexica), earlier Zapotec and Mayan civilisations worshipped a similar rain and fertility god, known as

[fmpclk]

Pyramids

As I am nearing the beginning of designing my second world I will need some inspiration. As I previously stated I wanted to make it seem as if it was the remnants of an ancient civilisation similar to the ancient Egyptians, but with a magical twist. So one thing that I would obviously look at if I was taking inspiration from civilisations like the ancient Egyptians was pyramids.

There are many different types of pyramids around the world and here are some examples:

Giza, Egypt: Great Pyramid of Khufu:

Teotihuacan, Mexico: The Pyramid of the Sun:

Meroe, Sudan: The Nubian Pyramids:

As you can see pyramids from different places around the world look different, ones from Egypt are more of a conventional pyramid shape, ones from Mexico have layers and have a sort of stepped look and ones from Sudan are very steep. There could be many reasons for this such as religious beliefs and usability. For example, the ones in Mexico may have been used regularly so may have need to be more accessible but the ones in Sudan and Egypt wouldn't have been used so didn't need steps up the pyramid. Additionally, the pyramids in Egypt were used as tombs for dead rulers that wanted an extravagant resting place, this would have been a part of why the pyramids in Egypt are shaped how they are.

[captaindibbzy]

Since I've been playing AC games again I have had a thought.

When AC originally came out in the 00's, the idea of some sort of ancient civilisation that linked all cultures across the world was kind of a quirky fun idea that could be played with relatively free of baggage. Maybe it's cause I was younger then, but conspiracy wasn't in public consciousness.

In the year 2024 it is a serious conspiracy test to tell whether the person you are talking to might be a nazi. And I think that's why the Isu story line tends to fall a bit flat these days.

In the first "three" (5) games it takes you up to 2012 where we had that Mayan calendar thing and it was almost relevant to current conversation.

Now we are on game [counts] 13 of the main one, 30 if you include the spin offs (omg why) and if someone walked up to me like "ancient civilization built the pyramids, and stone henge, and Atlantis is real." I'd assume they're a COVID denier, trump supporter, and a white supremacist.

The main draw for me of the AC series is getting to climb around the ancient world and have fun in different time zones. But they're 16/17 years in to the Isu story line and AC still makes money so it's still going. But dear god it's not aging well.

[olreid]

Hi! Sorry to bother you but I remember you mentioning a book a while ago set across three different time periods: mayan civilisation, present day and then a semi-dystopian future. What was it called? have a pleasant day 👍🏻

the actual star by monica byrne!