{"id":3316,"date":"2012-06-15T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T02:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2012-06-15T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:06:01","slug":"popol-vuh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/06\/popol-vuh-3316.html","title":{"rendered":"Archeologist : Popol Vuh Only Speaks of Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literally every day a new, generic article appears in a newspaper somewhere explaining that the 2012 phenomenon is nothing to worry about. And because they quote <strong><em>expert academics<\/em><\/strong>, people believe they are being told the full story.<\/p>\n<p>Most experts proudly share that there is no evidence that the Mayans thought anything bad would happen in 2012. This is true, most probably due to the thousands of Mayan books that were burned by the Spanish. Yet if you read the <em>Popol Vuh<\/em>, you can get an idea of what they were probably expecting: for the gods to wipe them out.<\/p>\n<p>The experts tend to conveniently forget the <em>Popol Vuh<\/em> exists, so I was surprised to read this, within an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/americas\/120611\/end-the-world-2012-tourism-guatemala-mexico\">It&#8217;s The End Of The World As We Know It<\/a> at the <em>Global Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mary Lou Ridinger, an archeologist and board member of the Maya Conservancy,  an organization that works to protect ancient Mayan sites, points out  that unlike modern societies, the ancient Maya were not linear thinkers.  Instead, they viewed the past, present and future as intertwined, like  spirals of DNA. In the Popol Vuh, the collection of writings containing  the Mayan creation myth, <strong>there is no mention of death<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll you see in the Popol Vuh is transformation, resurrection and rebirth,\u201d Ridinger said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering which translation she read, because I guess it wasn&#8217;t this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesoweb.com\/publications\/Christenson\/PV-Literal.pdf\">POPOL VUH: LITERAL TRANSLATION<\/a><br \/>\nBy Allen J. Christenson<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3317\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?attachment_id=3317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3317\" title=\"popol_vuh\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/popol_vuh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/popol_vuh.jpg 250w, http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/popol_vuh-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pages 24-26<\/p>\n<p>They first crowded with people,<br \/>\nThey came to be here upon its face earth.<br \/>\nTHEN therefore their end then,<br \/>\nTheir ruin,<br \/>\nTheir crushing as well,<br \/>\nThey were killed then,<br \/>\nEffigies,<br \/>\nCarved wood.<br \/>\nThen was planned their flood by its Heart Sky.<br \/>\nGreat flood was made, it came upon their heads,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Before his face their Framer,<br \/>\nTheir Shaper,<br \/>\nMaker of them,<br \/>\nCreator of them.<br \/>\nThus their being killed,<br \/>\nThey were flooded.<br \/>\nIt came great pine resin.<br \/>\nThere from sky.<br \/>\nThey came Chiselers of Faces their name,<br \/>\nThey chiseled out its seeds their faces [eyes].<br \/>\nThey came Death Knives,<br \/>\nThey cut off their heads.<br \/>\nHe came Crouching Jaguar,<br \/>\nHe ate their flesh.<br \/>\nHe came Striking Jaguar,<br \/>\nHe struck them.<br \/>\nThey smashed their bones,<br \/>\nTheir tendons.<br \/>\nGround up,<br \/>\nBroken to pieces<br \/>\nTheir bones.<br \/>\nGrinding up their faces,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And I&#8217;m guessing she didn&#8217;t read this one either:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meta-religion.com\/World_Religions\/Ancient_religions\/Central_america\/popol_vuh.htm\">Popol Vuh at Meta-Religion.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then they talked and spoke the truth: &#8220;Your figures of wood                shall come out well; they shall speak and talk on earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So may it be,&#8221; they answered when they spoke.<\/p>\n<p>And instantly the figures were made of wood. They looked like men,                talked like men, and populated the surface of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>They existed and multiplied; they had daughters, they had sons,                these wooden figures; but they did not have souls, nor minds, they                did not remember their Creator, their Maker; they walked on all                fours, aimlessly.<\/p>\n<p>They no longer remembered the Heart of Heaven and therefore they                fell out of favor. It was merely a trial, an attempt at man. At                first they spoke, but their face was without expression; their feet                and hands had no strength; they had no blood, nor substance, nor                moisture, nor flesh; their cheeks were dry, their feet and hands                were dry, and their flesh was yellow.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, they no longer thought of their Creator nor their Maker,                nor of those who made them and cared for them.<\/p>\n<p>These were the first men who existed in great numbers on the face                of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately the wooden figures were annihilated, destroyed, broken                up, and killed.<\/p>\n<p>A flood was brought about by the Heart of Heaven; a great flood                was formed which fell on the heads of the wooden creatures.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The two translations above are the only online translations of the Popol Vuh currently referenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popol_Vuh\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally every day a new, generic article appears in a newspaper somewhere explaining that the 2012 phenomenon is nothing to worry about. And because they quote expert academics, people believe they are being told the full story.<br \/>\nMost experts proudly share that there is no evidence that the Mayans thought anything bad would happen in 2012. This is true, most probably due to the thousands of Mayan books that were burned by the Spanish. Yet if you read the Popol Vuh, you can get an idea of what they were probably expecting: for the gods to wipe them out.<br \/>\nThe experts tend to conveniently forget the Popol Vuh exists, so I was surprised to read this, within an article titled It&#8217;s The End Of The World As We Know It at the Global Post:<br \/>\nMary Lou Ridinger, an archeologist and board member of the Maya Conservancy,  an organization that works to protect &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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