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Summary, the modern primitive man of the Stone Age

No matter how much romantic or mystical reverie we may have, the Mayan civilization has long since disappeared, leaving only a few remnants of megalithic ruins, buried in the depths of the verdant jungle, waiting to be excavated and explored by future generations.

Truth be told, the reason why the Mayan civilization was mystified was because we knew little about it in the past, leaving enough room for imagination to give birth to all kinds of strange Mayan legends.

With the deepening of archaeological excavation work in recent years, the mystery that originally shrouded the Mayan civilization has gradually faded.

In general, the Mayan civilization was a highly advanced stone civilization, while the Maya were a group of modern primitive people in the Stone Age.

Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Mayans came to the hot and muddy Yucatan Peninsula to build glorious Mayan city-states with rudimentary stone tools in a tropical jungle teeming with mosquitoes, flies and snakes. But then, they fell into the "ghost hitting the wall", due to the limitations of the natural environment and technical conditions, the Mayan civilization was stagnant in the primitive Stone Age for a long time, and was never able to go further and achieve a breakthrough. Moreover, the Mayans also retained many barbaric and bad habits of the obscurantist era, which made modern people in later generations feel very ****.

-- On the surface, the Maya seem to be quite like the Koreans of the Stone Age: they are keen on all kinds of plastic surgeries, they love to talk about it (they compiled a calendar that can be used for tens of thousands of years, and later generations attached a terrible prophecy that the world will be ruined in 2o12, and then their own civilization was extinct early), and they like to abuse themselves when they have nothing to do** (Koreans cut their little fingers and shaved their heads to protest, and Mayans drink emetics to abuse their stomachs, and prick their tongues and ears with fish bones to bleed, Pray to the gods for their blessings) ......

But in fact, the Mayan civilization is more similar to the old Tibet before the liberation of the theocracy, and belongs to an out-and-out theocratic society. Their cities were temples, and the Mayan kings were religious leaders who claimed to be demigods, and the city-state was at the heart of religious rituals...... In short, fanatical religious beliefs gave birth to the precocious Mayan civilization, but at the same time, it also put heavy shackles on it, making it difficult for it to continue to evolve.

Although the Maya overcame all kinds of difficulties through their own ingenuity, they once developed the stone civilization to the pinnacle. But the problem is that even if you put an anti-aircraft missile on the dinosaur's head, it is still a dinosaur...... As the technical threshold of the Stone Age could not be breached, the poor Maya eventually created a lame civilization that was disjointed from top to bottom - the noble priests of the city had mastered quite esoteric knowledge of astronomy, mathematics and architecture, were able to predict the movement of the stars, compile accurate calendars, and design marvelous buildings, which were incredibly advanced; However, farmers outside the city still practice the most primitive slash-and-burn farming, and there is a lack of large livestock such as cattle and horses, so there is no way to improve agricultural production.

In this way, as the city developed and civilization flourished, it became increasingly difficult for backward Mayan agriculture to support the superstructure of the Yue era. And the increase in population will gradually exceed the limit of the land. What's worse is that under the theocratic system, every "sign of decay" is attributed to God's dissatisfaction. In the event of a large-scale famine, the Mayans only knew how to build more temples and hold more ceremonious sacrifices, hoping to turn things around with the help of divine power...... The result is a vicious circle of incorrigibility, further wasting already scarce resources.

When all attempts to pray for the blessings of the gods failed, desperate Mayan peasants abandoned the noble priests in the city, refused to continue to pay them food and labor, and refused to build cumbersome and useless pyramids with blood and sweat, thus leading to the rapid collapse of this fragile civilization—just as the ancient Chinese would be so angry that if they could not ask for rain repeatedly, they would smash the temple of the Dragon King.

Therefore, there were no alien ships to pick up the Mayans, simply because the disgruntled lower Mayans abandoned the entire superstructure and refused to continue to be exploited by a group of extravagant priests and nobles.

Moreover, contrary to the conjectures of early archaeologists, the ancient Mayans were not peace-loving, but rather rather bloodthirsty and warlike. Throughout the history of the Mayan civilization, there has been a constant stream of warfare. Strangely, after the Mayan army had conquered the enemy's city, the victors did not occupy the land for long, but held a "final ceremony", smashing the thrones, temples and statues of the vanquished, completely destroying the city, and then carrying the prisoners of war back to their homeland and staking them to the pyramids to sacrifice to the gods. Then, it won't be long before the wild growth of tropical vegetation climbs the stone steps and windowsills, and the lost city is completely swallowed up by the jungle, until thousands of years later, when it is rediscovered......

The reason why the Maya kept repeating this kind of self-destructive warfare, instead of gradually merging into a unified empire like ancient China in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, was fundamentally because of the backwardness of the Stone Tool Civilization - due to the lack of technical level, the Maya have been unable to overcome the obstacles of transportation and organization, do not know how to rule the territory of a city, and naturally cannot evolve from a city-state civilization to a territorial state. As a result, the frequent battles between the Mayan city-states eventually only created "lost cities".

In short, the Mayans were neither ignorant cave-dwelling barbarians nor alien visitors from the sky, but a group of modern primitives of the Stone Age. So, while admiring the subtle art and magnificent ruins of the Mayans, we need not think of them too highly—no matter how wonderful and mysterious the Mayan civilization may be, it is only a primitive civilization of the Stone Age.