Hey Everybody, it's 8/11! In 3114 BCE on this date
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 5:24pm
the Mayan calendar started. Work on Stonehenge had only recently started and it would be somewhere around 36 years until Noah was born. This is kind of important because this calendar is based on planetary motions, not begats, so that if we can interpret a glyph we can know exactly when the event in question occurred. BTW, no great flood in mesoamerica or merrie engelonde; it happened in year nunca.
be well and have a good one
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It's something of a coincidence that a Mayan Calendar
...consumed my attention last night. On Amazon I found a DIY 3D working model of a Mayan Calendar made of wood I just had to have.
They say it takes about three hours to assemble, and promise it will improve my hand-eye coordination among other benefits.
If this works out, I'm going to build the Pendulum Clock or the Mars Rover, next.
This cool puzzle company is located in Ukraine.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Cool. It says working model - does it have moving parts?
Once you get it made you'll have to post a full review.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Yep. Moving parts and all.
I put a link to it in the first post under Amazon.
Here's what the project looks like:
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Tikal Pyramid Number 4
I went there with a couple who were unable to walk to it, much less climb it.
A few years later, I took another person there who couldn't get past the "first floor".
Interestingly, the local guide on the first trip was taking his group back to the bus when I was coming in from my second tour with another local guide. We made eye contact, then we hugged, and he flipped out that I had climbed that steep bastard twice! He remembered me from several years prior! Mayan's could climb!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hola otc! good for you. Never
got to Tikal but did some in Belize, Altun Ha, iirc, and one that was still a dig, a huge one that purportedly conquered Tikal at least once; I think it was Calakmul. I never thought about it at the time, but have since come to understand that the Maya were generally a little under 5 feet tall, which would've made such climbs even more of a task than for a person like myself (over 6 foot).
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --