Chapter 201: The Mayan Temple
The Mayan civilization was a jungle civilization that was found in present-day southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize. Although it was in the Neolithic period, he was highly accomplished in astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, art, and writing.
According to Mesoamerican chronicles, the Mayan civilization originated in 1500 BC and was not eradicated by Spain until the 16th century AD, which lasted for more than 3,000 years.
The Maya did not have a unified and powerful empire like ancient civilizations such as China and Egypt, and the Maya region was divided into hundreds of city-states at its peak, but the Mayan states belonged to the same cultural circle in terms of language, writing, religious beliefs, and customs.
The above is the information about the Mayan civilization that Li Ang found, and there are not many things recorded in detail, many of which are unknown, and even some things are still unsolved mysteries.
The most famous is nothing more than the Mayan civilization's prophecy about the end of the world, but unfortunately in 2012, the earth was not destroyed, but in fact, the Mayans never predicted that 2012 would be the end of the world.
According to the prophecy of the Mayan calendar, the world we live in has five cycles of destruction and rebirth – each cycle is the so-called "Solar Age", according to which around 2012 will be the beginning of the "Fifth Solar Age".
The beginning of the "5th Solar Age" is naturally the end of the "4th Solar Age", which is why there is a prediction of the end of the world in 2012, which is actually a modern statement.
As for whether there will really be a "solar age" of destruction and rebirth, who knows, in case there is an error, tens of thousands of years of reincarnation, isn't it normal to have an error of a few years.
The Mayan civilization as a whole was an agrarian civilization of the Stone Age, but they had a level of architecture and astronomy that far surpassed their civilization.
This is obviously very unreasonable, a civilization, the development of all aspects is often unified, for example, you can fly to the universe, but you can't solve the problem of food, this is obviously impossible.
The Mayan civilization had its own well-developed writing system, and their writing has not yet been completely deciphered.
And the words they used turned out to be the mysterious rune, the rune with special powers!
"It's certainly not a coincidence, if they regard runes as their own words, what kind of knowledge will they have about runes?" On board the spaceship Hope, Leon sighed as he looked through the materials of the Mayan civilization.
Athena is the person who has studied the most runes nowadays, but she can't accurately say the meaning of each rune, but she has only discovered the special effects of some rune combinations through continuous attempts and explorations.
"There are indeed too many unsolved mysteries about the Mayan civilization, and isn't that what we're here for?"
"It has reached the sky above the designated destination, there is not enough space to land, and it has been switched to hovering mode." Leon's conversation with Athena is interrupted by a report of an electronic synthesized voice, which is the intelligent voice of the Hope.
The Hope has undergone earth-shaking changes under the joint transformation of the two, with Athena's ability, except for the ship's intelligent control system, which cannot be transformed with runes, other aspects have been more or less transformed, this Hope spaceship can be said to be a collection of the most high-end traditional science and rune science of the top achievements.
"Open the hatch and stay invisible." Leon gave the order.
Leon and Shirley can fly on their own, and although Athena has no ability to fly, her dress also has the ability to fly under her transformation, and the three of them fell directly from the sky into the dense jungle.
The Mayan Temple, also known as the Mayan Pyramids, is the most mysterious building of the Mayan civilization, there is no one, there are a lot of mural reliefs in the Mayan Temple, recording the history of the Mayan civilization, culture, astronomical calendar, etc., most of the information that modern people understand about the Mayan civilization comes from here.
After walking out of the dense tropical jungle, the mysterious Mayan temple appeared in front of the eyes of the three people, the Mayan temple also has a name, called the Pyramid of Kukulkan, Kukulkan in the Mayan culture means with the god Quetzalcoatl, known as the embodiment of the sun, that is, the sun god.
"It's hard to imagine how people built such an amazing building more than 2,500 years ago." Athena looked up at the mysterious building, which was almost ten stories tall.
"Let's go, let's go and have a look first." Leon was the first to walk forward.
"Why isn't there ice here?" Shirley looked around curiously, and there was a lot of greenery as far as her eye could see, and the little girl seemed to be a little unaccustomed.
"Not everywhere is icy and snowy, and the dense jungle has its own special charm, doesn't it?" Leon patiently taught Shirley.
Walking up the stairs, Leon carefully looked around, not letting go of the slightest detail, it was hard to imagine how such a building made of earth and stone could have stood through thousands of years of ups and downs.
"Did you find anything?"
"Not yet, what about you?" Athena walked very slowly, carefully observing everything, not letting go of the slightest clue.
"Why don't you ask me if I found anything?!" Shirley pouted, and Leon's ignorance made her a little unhappy.
"Well, what did our lovely Princess Shirley find?"
"I didn't find it." Shirley shook the double ponytail that Yan Xiaoyu tied for her, and jumped towards the top of the Mayan temple.
Leon now felt the urge to spank Shirley and was hesitating to do it.
"Li Ang, come here." Athena's tone was slightly excited, as if she had made a discovery.
"Look at this." Athena said, pointing to a stone that formed the outer layer of the temple.
The stone was just an ordinary stone, with a black mottled skin a few millimeters thick that was not recognizable, and now some of the skin had peeled off, revealing the body of the stone.
"Like runes?" Leon completely peeled away the remaining stone skin, revealing the original appearance of the large stone.
This stone is very large, the overall shape is a cube, and the weight is estimated to be several tons, but this is nothing unusual, the pyramids of Egypt, there are dozens of tons of a stone, and Li Ang is concerned that there are indeed runes on the big stone.
The runes are very large, and one rune occupies an entire side of the stone, and it is carved on the stone in a carved way, and people who don't know it will probably think that it is a decorative pattern, which is probably the reason why it is ignored by people.
This rune was a type that Leon and Athena had never seen before, and they had no idea what the effect would be.
It took an hour for Leon to shell the entire outer layer of the Mayan temple, but not every stone had runes, they found a total of 36 runes, 9 on each side, half of them had been seen, and many had never seen them.
"The fact that this Mayan temple has been able to stand for thousands of years may have something to do with these runes," Athena speculated.