Section 409 Mayan Civilization

Hu Jiaojiao asked curiously, "By the way, all of you come to express your opinions, let's talk about it, what is Maya? I haven't heard of it at all, it's so lonely and unheard, fortunately there is a good thing about this flying saucer, and by the way, I went out of the country, it was really an eye-opener, and I saw the mystery and magnificence of the legendary Egyptian pyramids with my own eyes, but Maya really haven't heard of it, is there such a country? Where is Maya? And the pyramids have not always been considered to be the symbol of Egypt, does this Maya also have pyramids? Did those Egyptian pharaohs send people to repair it in the past? Brother Xiaofei, you have read a lot of ancient books, you have seen a lot of knowledge, and you have a lot of knowledge, so let's talk about it. “

Xiao Fei said in a beaming voice: "Maya is the collective name and abbreviation of the Mayan people and the Mayan civilization. The Mayan civilization is an ancient Indian civilization in North America, an outstanding representative of the ancient civilization of the Americas, named after the Indian Maya. It is mainly found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the western regions of Honduras and El Salvador. Although he was in the Neolithic Age, he was highly accomplished in astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, art, and writing. The Mayan civilization and the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire are listed as the three major civilizations in the Americas, the Mayan civilization was formed in 1500 BC, the early slave state was established in 400 BC, the 3rd to 9th centuries AD was the prosperous period, and the 15th century was destroyed by the Spanish and other European settlers, after which the Mayan civilization declined and was submerged in the tropical jungle for a long time. The Mayan civilization is one of the most mysterious civilizations on the earth, and the high prosperity of science and technology and culture has brought immeasurable wealth and power to the Mayans. Originating around 1800 B.C., Chichen Itza was founded in the 5th century A.D. and covered an area of 25 square kilometers in the 7th century. The Mayans built hundreds of buildings out of stone here, a product of the development of the Mayan civilization to its heyday. These buildings are not only tall and majestic, but also carved with exquisite ornamentation, showing the high level of architectural art of the ancient Maya. The shape of the Mayan pyramids is completely different from the Egyptian pyramids, but the same incredible buildings, how those huge stones are cut and chiseled, transported to the depths of the jungle, and then stacked up to 70 meters high, without advanced transportation and lifting equipment, it is difficult to complete. History records show that the telescope was invented by Galileo in the 16th century, and then large observatories appeared, and the concept of an astronomical observation network only appeared in modern times, and such a concept is quite advanced. It is still a mystery, so it is certain that the astronomical science of the Maya was not inferior to that of today. Legend has it that the Maya began to build religious buildings 3,000 years ago, and the earliest ruins consisted of some simple mounds, which later evolved into pyramids - the pyramids of the Mayans and the pyramids of the Egyptians are slightly different in shape, and their architectural functions are essentially different: the pyramids of the Egyptians are the tombs of the ancient Egyptian rulers of the pharaohs, and scientists speculate that one of the important functions of the Mayan pyramids is to hold sacrificial and ceremonial altars. The early Mayan civilization seems to have been influenced by the earlier Olmec civilization.

According to the Mesoamerican chronology, Mayan history is divided into the Preclassic, Classic, and Post-Classical periods. The Pre-Classical Period (1500 B.C.-300 A.D.), also known as the formative period, was the period in which the invention of the calendar and writing, the erection of monuments and the construction of buildings were all in this period, the Classical Period was the heyday (c. 4th to 9th centuries), when the use of writing, the erection of monuments, the construction of architecture and the development of art were at its peak, and the Post-Cauricic period (c. 9th to 16th centuries) was the period in which the city-states of Chichen Itza and Uxmal arose in the north, and the culture gradually declined (weakened). The Maya never had a unified empire like civilizations such as China and Egypt, and the Maya region was divided into hundreds of city-states in its heyday, but the Mayan states belonged to the same cultural circle in terms of language, writing, religious beliefs, and customs. In the 16th century, the Aztec Empire, the inheritor of Mayan culture, was wiped out by the Spanish Empire. The Mayan civilization is the oldest and full of wisdom of a tribal race, the Mayan civilization is named after the Indian Maya, is the American Indian Maya people isolated from the ancient civilizations of Asia, Africa and Europe, the great civilization created independently, its ruins are mainly distributed in Mexico (southeast), the Yugatan Peninsula, Panama, Guatemala and Honduras, etc., the Maya people mainly lived in Cavatendo in the post-classical period. The Mayan civilization was born in the 10th century BC and was divided into three periods: the Preclassic, the Classic, and the Postclassic, with the 3rd to 9th centuries AD being its heyday.

The Mayan civilization was an amazing achievement of humanity before Columbus discovered the American continent. It has made extremely important contributions to science, agriculture, culture, art and many other aspects. In contrast, the other two major civilizations born in the Western Hemisphere, the Aztec civilization and the Inca civilization, are not the same as the Mayan civilization.

However, what puzzles people is that as the only ancient civilization in the world that was born in a tropical jungle rather than a large river basin, the Mayan civilization is as mysterious as its miraculous rise and development. In the 8th century AD, the Maya abandoned their highly developed civilization and migrated en masse. Each central city created terminated with new construction, the city was completely abandoned, and the bustling metropolis became deserted. The Mayan civilization disappeared overnight into the tropical jungles of the Americas. By the late 11th century, the Mayan civilization had been partially revived, but its glory was not as good as it had been in its heyday. With the bloody actions of capitalist overseas expansion, the Mayan civilization was finally completely destroyed by the Ming colonists in parallel space.

In the thirties of the 19th century, the American John Stephens first discovered the ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization in the tropical jungle of Honduras. Since then, archaeologists from all over the world have discovered many abandoned ruins of ancient Mayan cities in the jungles and wastelands of Mesoamerica. The Mayans created a splendid and brilliant civilization without metal tools or means of transportation, relying only on the primitive production tools of the Neolithic Age. The Mayan civilization was able to carve and carve solid stone at the highest level in the world. Through long-term observation of celestial phenomena, we have mastered the solar eclipse cycle and the movement of the sun, moon and Venus; carvings, painted pottery, and murals have high artistic value, and are called "the Greece of the Americas". The Mayan civilization is a very ancient and mysterious civilization. First of all, the Mayan civilization belonged to the stone civilization, and the Maya did not invent the use of bronze, let alone iron. Secondly, mastering a high degree of construction technology, the Maya did not use copper, iron, wheeled chariots. Although the concept of the wheel appears in artifacts such as pottery, it is not practical in real life, but it creates a high degree of urban civilization. Thirdly, agriculture uses corn as the staple food, so it is also called "corn civilization". There are no cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, no traces of animal husbandry, and the farmers adopt a very primitive Milpa farming method. There is also mathematics in the decimal system, the discovery and use of the concept of "zero" (one is taught by the Olmecs), and a high degree of mathematical and astronomical calendar knowledge. Finally, a unique hieroglyph script is used, the Mayan script. The Mayan script is more complex than the current script, because for example, the alphabet script is one-dimensional, only left and right, and the Chinese character, two-dimensional, is divided into up, down, left, and right, but the Mayan script is three-dimensional, not only up and down, left and right, but also far and near, and its reading order is first left and then right, first up and then down, first near and then far.

Later explorer John Stephens discovered the remains of the ancient Mayans in the rainforests of Central American Honduras: magnificent pyramids, wealthy palaces, and highly accurate calendars carved into stone tablets with hieroglyphs. The Mayan civilization trailed from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico in the north, Guatemala and Honduras in the south, to the Andes Mountains. Archaeology has put forward many hypotheses about the mystery of the annihilation of the Mayan civilization: foreign invasions, population explosions, diseases, climate change, etc., which have painted the Mayan civilization with a strong mystery. In the 20th century, a multidisciplinary expedition of 45 scholars, including archaeologists, zoologists and nutritionists, traveled through the Peten rainforest region of Guatemala to solve this ancient mystery. The expedition team spent six years investigating more than 200 Mayan civilization sites and came to the conclusion that the Mayan civilization was destroyed by a bloody civil war for wealth and power. The Maya were not the peace-loving people of the legend. On the contrary, during the heyday of 300-700 AD, the Mayan nobles of the neighboring city-states fought wars for power. The Mayan warriors used spears and clubs as weapons to attack other cities, with the aim of capturing prisoners and giving them to the priests as sacrifices to the gods, which were the hallmarks of the worship of gods in Mayan society.

Mayan society used to be quite prosperous. Farmers cultivated furrows, terraces and swampy paddy fields to produce food to feed a burgeoning population. Artisans made artworks from flint, stone, bone horns, and shells, made cotton fabrics, carved stone inscriptions, and painted pottery and murals. Commodity trading is prevalent. From the mid-7th century AD, Mayan society declined. With the increase in political marriages, other royal brothers except the eldest son were sidelined. Some princes left their homes in search of new cities, while others stayed behind to fight for succession. This kind of "infighting" changed from the original battle for sacrifice to the struggle for jewelry, luxury goods, royal power, beautiful women, etc., and the war was endless, the lives were destroyed, the trade was interrupted, the city and the countryside were destroyed, and in the end only 10% of the people survived. The fall of the royal palace in the city of Dus-Pilas in 761 AD can be seen as a starting point for the decline of Mayan society. Dus-Pilas, a central city-state with a radius of 1,500 miles, was attacked by enemies from the neighboring city of Tomaritito. A cave containing the heads of 13 men between the ages of 8 and 55 testifies to the massacre that was carried out when the city was captured. Eight days later (the details are precisely recorded on stone tablets), the victors performed a "closing ceremony", smashing the throne, the temple and the stereotype. Some of the nobles fled to the nearby city of Aguadica, a natural fortress surrounded by huge cracks, and survived for 40 years before being captured and fallen by the enemy. By 800 A.D., Aguadica was already a ghost town.

Today, more than 2 million people of Maya descent still live in the lowlands of Guatemala, as well as in Mexico, Belize and Honduras. However, the essence of Mayan culture, such as hieroglyphs, astronomy, calendars, and other knowledge, has disappeared and has not been passed on to future generations.

There is also the famous Mayan language, the earth is not owned by humans, but humans belong to the earth. - According to the Mayan prophecy, our Earth is already in the so-called 5th Solar Age, and so far, the Earth has passed four solar epochs, and at the end of each epoch, there will be a thrilling destruction. The first solar epoch was Matraktili, which was finally destroyed by a flood, one says Noah's flood. The second solar epoch is Iokotel, scattered by the god of wind. The third solar age is Queavello, which is the path of destruction due to the rain of fire from the sky. The Fourth Solar Age is Zondrik, which was destroyed by a major earthquake caused by the ravages of fire and rain. The Maya prophesied that from the end of the first to the fourth solar age, the earth would be plunged into unprecedented chaos, and that it would end in a tragic tragedy that would warn the earth before it perished. Most Mayan prophecies are chronological, announcing the end of the "Fifth Solar Age", so the Maya prophesied that the earth would be renewed at this time. The Fifth Solar Age began in 3113 Mayan Era, and after 5125 years of the Mayan Cycle, it moved towards a new era, not the end of the world. The current Gregorian calendar compares this date to December 21, 2012 A.D. The Maya were deeply religious, and their cultural life was religious. They worship the god of the sun, the god of rain, the god of grains, the god of death, the god of war, the god of wind, the god of corn, etc. The sun god resides above the gods and is revered as the embodiment of God. In addition, ancestor worship is practiced, believing in the immortality of the soul. The Mayan state was also responsible for religious affairs, and the capital was the religious center. Since 1839, when American John Stephens first discovered the ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization in the tropical jungle of Honduras, archaeologists from all over the world have found more than 170 ruins of ancient Mayan cities in the jungles and wastelands of Central America, and the footprints of the Mayan civilization have reached the Andes Mountains from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico in the north, Guatemala and Honduras in the south. The mysterious Mayan people built huge structures of astonishing scale in the tropical jungles of South America. When the computer reconstructions of the majestic city of Tikal appeared, many modern city designers also lamented themselves: the Palenque Palace, built in the 7th century, is 100 meters long and 80 meters wide. The Governor's Palace in Uxmar is made up of 22,500 stone carvings in an elaborate pattern. Although the roof of Chichen Itza's samurai temple has disappeared, the 1,000 stone pillars that stand majestically still remind you of the spirit of the past. All this makes people feel that this is an extraordinary nation. With further investigation of the Mayan culture, people are surprised to find that the Maya thousands of years ago had unparalleled mathematical attainments and unique enigmatic writing. The megastructures of Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and other places were not built according to the actual needs of the Mayans, but were built strictly according to the magical Mayan calendar cycle.

The Maya were so precise in their knowledge of the calendar and astronomy that they used a dot, a horizontal, and a shell-shaped symbol representing zero to represent numbers. When archaeologists studied the Mayan numeral system, they found that their numerical expression was similar to that of the abacus beads, using three symbols: a point, a horizontal, and a shell-shaped symbol representing zero to represent any number. A similar principle is applied today to the binary system of computers. This method of counting is used in astronomical numbers, and in the carved stone pillars found in Guatemala's Girigua called stone markers, the numbers of 90 million and 400 million years are recorded. The Mayan calendar was very complex, with different calendars for different cycles, such as the 260-day Chokin calendar, the 6-month lunar calendar, the 29-day and 30-day lunar calendar, and the 365-day solar calendar. Modern astronomical observations of a year are 365.2422 days, while the Mayans have measured a year of 365.2420 days, a difference of only 0.0002 days, or about 18 seconds, from modern times. The Mayans came up with the famous formula for Venus: Moon 20x13=260260x2x73=37960Sun 8x13=104 104x5x73=37960Venus 5x13=6565x8x73=37960These formulas mean that after 37,960 days of each cycle, they will meet in a straight line, and according to Mayan mythology, the gods will go to a peaceful resting place. The Mayans spent 384 years of observation to calculate the Venusian calendar year of 584 (they found that Venus traveled exactly five times in eight Earth years, and then repeated the cycle, dividing 5 by the number of days in 8 Earth years - 2920 - to get 584 days), and today it is 583.92 days, with an error rate of less than 12 seconds per day and only 6 minutes per month. It is incredible to calculate the Venus calendar year with such a high degree of accuracy. The Mayan units of the day count are surprisingly large, and archaeologists already know the following values: 20 gold (Kin) (days) = 1 Unial (month) or 20 days, 20 guilders (Tun) = 1 Katun or 7,200 days, 20 (guilders) = 1 Baktun or 144,000 days, 20 gold guilders = 1 Al (Ato) or 23040000000 days. Why did they develop such a huge number? It's so big that even modern people don't need it. From today's scientific point of view, such a huge number is only used by astronomical societies. Astronomers often use very large numerical units to represent the distances between galaxies, which is only possible in astronomy. In the Mayan calendar, the Chokin calendar is based on a year of 260 days. Strangely enough, there is not a single planet in the solar system that applies this calendar. According to this calendar, the planet's approximate position should be between Venus and Earth. The symbols in the Zhuo Jin calendar, which express the Milky Way core as described by the Mayans, are very similar to the Tai Chi Yin and Yang diagram. Some Mayan scholars believe that the calendar of the Zhuo Jin calendar records the movement of the galactic seasons, according to the Zhuo Jin calendar: the earth is in the fifth solar age, which is the last solar age. During this period of the galactic monsoon, the solar system is undergoing a major cycle that lasts more than 5,100 years. The period is from 3113 BC to 2012 AD. In this great cycle, the Earth, as well as the solar system, is passing through a beam of galactic rays from the core of the Milky Way. The cross-sectional diameter of this ray is 5125 Earth years. In other words, it would take 5,125 years for the Earth to pass through this ray ray. The Mayans divided this cycle into 13 stages, each of which is well documented. Each of the 13 stages is divided into 20 evolutionary periods. Each period lasts 20 years. The calendar cycle is very similar to the Chinese sexagenary cycle. The calendar is cyclical, not like a straight line in the Common Era. It is believed that the Earth has gone through four solar epochs since the creation of the world. When the stars of the solar system go through this great cycle of galactic rays, they will undergo fundamental changes.

Moreover, they divided the year into 18 months, and the estimated earth year is 365.2420 days, and the modern calculation is 365.2422 days, with an error of only 0.0002 days, that is, an error of only one day in 5000 years. The Venusian year is estimated to be 584 days, which is only 7 seconds different from modern estimates of 50 years. Unbelievable figures! How could the Mayans thousands of years ago have such precise calculations? Where did the special religious chronology come from? It is really puzzling! Because this chronology is not based on the movements of any of the celestial bodies observed on Earth, so that some people believe that the Chojin calendar was formulated by the ancestors of the Mayans on the basis of another planet that we do not know yet. The Mayans mastered the concept of the number 0 at least in the 4th century BC, 800 to 1000 years before the Chinese and Europeans. The Mayans invented the 20-digit notation method, and the number calculus could be used until 4 million years later. Such a large astronomical figure is only used in modern interstellar navigation and in calculating the distance of the starry sky. Thousands of years ago, the Mayans slash-and-burn farming, using leaves to cover their bodies, and using cocoa beans as a medium to barter, can they use such a numerical calculation? The Mayan calendar can be maintained until 400 million years later, and the difference between the solar year and the Venus year can be calculated to four decimal places, and it has its own script -- hieroglyphs composed of 800 symbols and figures, and the vocabulary is as high as 30,000. There are exquisite carvings, paintings, and art. Even in the 16th century, the Indians that the Spaniards saw on the Yucatan Peninsula, which was full of monuments, still covered their bodies with leaves, lived in mud huts, and gathered and hunted for a living. Obviously, the precise astronomical calendar and mathematics, the civilization and art admired by the whole world, far exceeded the practical needs of the almost primitive life of the local Indian natives. It is puzzling that in ancient times, how did the ancient Mayans acquire such advanced knowledge, how did the splendid Mayan culture come into being, and how did it disappear later? As a result, some scholars have put forward a bold hypothesis: In ancient times, a group of highly civilized extraterrestrial intelligent beings may have arrived in the tropical jungles of the Americas, who taught the Mayans all kinds of advanced knowledge in primitive times, and then drifted away. They were considered by the Mayans to be the gods. The incomprehensible sophistication of Mayan culture was taught by aliens.

Using cutting-edge optical technology, archaeologists have discovered a Mayan megalopolitan hidden in the jungle in northern Guatemala, with the remains of more than 60,000 houses, royal palaces, elevated roads, and other man-made structures. Experts say this is a major breakthrough in Mayan archaeology. The archaeologists used a technique called optical detection and ranging (LiDAR), which the team used to map the metropolis over an area of 2,100 square kilometers, the report said. The technology helped them remove the canopy from the aerial images of the aircraft, revealing the ruins of a centuries-old civilization that had been hidden in the forest without cutting down the forest. Archaeologists have also found a complex network of elevated roads that connect all the Mayan cities in the area, making them easily accessible even during the rainy season, and wide enough to presumably have a high volume of traffic, and DAR images show the existence of a complex irrigation and terrace system that supported intensive agriculture and was able to provide food for large numbers of workers. Experts also found amazing defensive structures, including walls, defensive walls, and bastions, showing that the Mayan civilization put more resources into defense than experts thought. Thomas Garrison, an archaeologist at the University of Ithaca, said the images of LiDAR clearly show that the area is a system of settlements that are grossly underestimated in size and population density. He said the discovery was significant and game-changing. According to the report, the Mayan civilization was at its peak about 1,500 years ago, suggesting that the Mayan civilization was larger than experts estimate, with a total population of 10 million to 15 million. “

However, the content of the Mayan civilization is too rich and complex, so no matter how knowledgeable Xiao Fei is, he can't remember so much, so he simply took out his mobile phone and read it according to the book after talking for a while, and the other ancient people except Duan Gongzi were all confused. Brother Hugh saw Xiao Fei vibrating on the mobile phone, he and we went with us for a long time, and the first time to see Xiao Fei use this thing, curiously said, what kind of baby, Xiao Fei is also generous, by the way took out a mobile phone from the backpack and gave it to him, saying that the antiques found in our back mountain before, very high-tech, he quickly thanked Xiao Fei, under Xiao Fei's patient guidance, he concentrated, and concentrated on learning the use of mobile phones. Hu Jiaojiao said disapprerovingly: "What's this, Brother Xiaofei, I thought you were knowledgeable, it turned out to be its credit." But I'm not very familiar with the function of this mobile phone.,I thought I could only make a phone call.,I didn't expect to be able to check things.,It's all written on it.,Come.,Come and teach me.,I also want to see for myself.。 She also involuntarily took out her mobile phone, and curiously asked Xiaofei to teach her to open and use the Baidu function in the mobile phone.