It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Have I been too busy? Maybe. Actually, no. Have I had nothing to really say? That’s more like it. There has been a lot to talk about in the news and everywhere else, but I just haven’t posted about it.
So, does that mean I have something big to say now? Well, not really. I’ve just decided to put something up on here.
What am I going to talk about? Well, I think I’ll write a little about what I want to do with myself. Yes, it’s not that interesting, but it’s a post, nonetheless.
So, what is it exactly that I want to do with myself? Well, there’s a lot of things, really. The main thing I want to do is study the Maya. Study them, know them, understand them and share them with everyone. I want to promote them. Why would I want to do such a thing? I feel they are one of the most under appreciated civilizations in the world. We always hear about the Egyptians and those in Mesopotamia, as well as all the East Asian civilizations and the Incas and Aztecs in South America, as being the great civilizations of the world. I think the Maya should be mentioned in the same breath as the Egyptians in terms of the greatest civilization in history. Why do I think this? The Maya developed things never thought of in history before, the idea of zero. The Maya built amazing temples that would rival those of the great Giza pyramids. They created one of the most accurate calendars ever made. They had riches beyond belief. They had amazing traditions and rituals.
Why do we not hear and know as much about the Maya as we do other civilizations? The very reason is religion. The Spanish, in their quest of colonization and spreading religion, destroyed the majority of Mayan written records that were done on “paper.” All things that could be burned that had any recording of Mayan history was destroyed. We only have a few things that were not completely destroyed by the Spanish. We do still have written “hieroglyphs” all over Mayan territory, but they do not completely cover the history that these books would help supplement or even completely cover.
Any way that I can help to understand and know more about the Maya, and, in turn, inform others about them, I want to do. I want to do it with a passion. This is all what I want to do with myself.
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