Subject: Re: About human sacrifice.

[micc]

No acutaully theyjoined elvis' first rockabilli group in the Lemurian
Vegas and currently sell property in the Bermuda Triangle to
Yetis.....:)

mike gaby wrote:
>
> My guess would be that these people returned to the Pleides, from whence
> they came, along with their Pharaoh brethren.  The fall of Atlantis was just
> too much for them! :)
> Mike
>
> >From: nahuat-l at server.umt.edu (by way of "John F. Schwaller"
> ><schwallr at selway.umt.edu>)
> >Reply-To: nahuat-l at server.umt.edu
> >To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
> >Subject: Subject: Re: About human sacrifice.
> >Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:22:24 -0600
> >
> >Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 02:36:07 -0600 (MDT)
> >From: Andreas C Schou <schoandr at cwis.isu.edu>
> >To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
> >Subject: Re: About human sacrifice.
> >
> >On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Brad Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Same for Mayan pyramids built at least a hundred thousand years ago and
> > > discovered by ignorant spaniards with rape and conquest on their minds,
> > > that thought that the ignorant people using stone knives and ripping
> > > people's hearts out and throwing them down the stairs to the roaring
> > > crowd, were the ones who actually "built" them.
> >
> >It's extremely unlikely that, one hundred thousand years ago, Mesoamerica
> >had any inhabitants whatsoever. Where are their tools? Where did they
> >expand from? What language did they speak, and why is the language of the
> >original monument-builders entirely extinct?
> >
> > > Wrong. The people living next to many of these "monuments" know
> > > relatively nothing about them.
> >
> >Interesting. Are the obvious depictions of Mayans participating in common
> >Mayan activities are simply a coincidence? How do you explain the
> >replication of Mesoamerican iconography from permanent (temples) to
> >impermanent (pottery) media?
> >
> > > They just "used" them for whatever ignorant and stupid ritual that the
> > > "priest" class of peons told them to do.
> >
> >Interpretation of Mesoamerican myth is often touchy: though the stories
> >are often bloody, evidence of such large-scale murder is seldom
> >forthcoming ... and context is difficult to determine.
> >
> >Assumptions like that, if applied to the Bible, might lead one to
> >believe that Christian communion endorses ritual cannibalism. This is
> >obviously not the case ... unless you go to a church much different than
> >mine. ;)
> >
> > > The mayans that ripped peoples hearts out knew nothing of any calendar,
> > > much less how to interpret it.
> >
> >There is a certain racism inherent in your peculiar Danikenite posture.
> >You theorize that savages like the Egyptians and the Mayans could never
> >have developed culture on your own; Greece, Rome, and other 'white'
> >civilizations, however, remain beyond the touch of your theoretical
> >aliens.
> >
> >Danikenism is the response of a culture clinging to its last pretensions
> >of superiority. When faced with irrefutable evidence that other cultures
> >were at least as good as yours at doing certain things, you invent aliens
> >to bootstrap the 'savages' up.
> >
> > > They didn't have the math skills or the intelligence after way too much
> > > inbreeding.
> >
> >First: that contention is simply insulting.
> >
> >Second: Inbreeding typically only occurs when the benefit outweighs
> >humanity's inherent incest taboo ... for instance, to keep political power
> >'in the family', as it were, or when mating opportunities become limited;
> >for instance, during times of famine. Until the Mayan collapse, the
> >Mayans had a healthy and active gene pool. There was no pressing reason to
> >inbreed. Second, even if you *do* assume that the Mayan leaders were
> >inbred, Mayan dynastic structure did not affect the priestly caste -- the
> >astronomers and mathematicians of the Mayans ... thus, no information
> >would be 'lost' by inbreeding.
> >
> >In short: if you want to come into an academic discussion, bring academic
> >thought. If you want to antagonize people who genuinely appreciate the
> >culture you so carelessly denigrate, do exactly what you have just done.
> >
> >
> >
>
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