Secrets of the Maya Underworld

[Immortal4life]

Here is the BBC program "Secrets of the Maya Underworld"-






Deep Beneath the Yucatan Peninsula is a vast network of Cenotes connected through underground passages, underground caves and underground flowing rivers. It is no wonder the Mayans believed the Cenotes to be the Gates to the Underworld. Some of the Cenotes are indeed truly beautiful and breathtaking. Deep in the Underworld modern researchers have even found the bones of Mammoths that went extinct 10,000 years ago. Modern science has not even begun to discover or comprehend the full implications of the secrets which lie beneath the Maya Underworld.

Articles-
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/travel/escapes/23Cave.html
http://yucatantoday.com/en/topics/caves-yucatan

The Yucatán Peninsula is a porous limestone shelf with no above-ground rivers or lakes. Instead there are underground rivers, lakes, sinkholes and caves. The caves of the Yucatán were sacred places for the Mayas and are impressive places to visit.

Evidence has been found here of human contact going back 7,000 years. Mammoth bones have been found in the caves, along with fresco paintings on the walls, "hands in negative", faces, animals, grecos and decorative figures.

Edited February 8, 2013 by Immortal4life

[Encephalon]

Deep Beneath the Yucatan Peninsula is a vast network of Cenotes connected through underground passages, underground caves and underground flowing rivers. It is no wonder the Mayans believed the Cenotes to be the Gates to the Underworld. Some of the Cenotes are indeed truly beautiful and breathtaking. Deep in the Underworld modern researchers have even found the bones of Mammoths that went extinct 10,000 years ago. Modern science has not even begun to discover or comprehend the full implications of the secrets which lie beneath the Maya Underworld.

 

Modern science knows exactly what happened here: acidic rainwater bore holes through the alkaline limestone formation from which the entire Yucatan Peninsula is made.

Our pool guy has enough knowledge of Ph chemistry to figure that out.

 

Don't knock science 'til you've tried it. It actually makes you a smarter, more interesting person!

[steve]

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[Birch]

I talked to a Mayan tourist guide (who was Mayan) who talked about meteors as the cause of the cenotes. He also mentioned that the water in them (which was the only source of drinking water) was responsible for calcium 'overload' in the population leading to all kinds of issues (not least stunting bone growth - 'why we are short' ;-) and causing kidney-stones )

 

It's always interesting (IMO/IME) to find out where people's ideas of things come from. I hadn't read/heard the acid rain explanation and I was so taken with the meteor story that I didn't bother to cross-examine the Mayan:-) I suppose I should have. Where did you get your information Encephalon? I'd like to go check it out.

[Protector]

 

 

Modern science knows exactly what happened here: acidic rainwater bore holes through the alkaline limestone formation from which the entire Yucatan Peninsula is made.

Our pool guy has enough knowledge of Ph chemistry to figure that out.

 

Don't knock science 'til you've tried it. It actually makes you a smarter, more interesting person!

 

So what, that's how caves were made, then what happened? No idea

Just because some stuff got melted doesn't close the topic

 

Having a closed mind makes all the attempts at being smart and interesting null

[Immortal4life]

It is definitely true that there are theories about and traces of meteor, perhaps even atomic, bombardment.

 

What kind of catacalysm hit the globe so hard to wipeout the previous prehistoric cultures?

Rumours of Cataclysm

 

Following Columbus' celebrated landfall in the Bahamas in 1492, Spanish explorers heard stories from the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Bahamas that spoke of a flood which had devastated the archipelagos. It was said to have split apart a much larger landmass, killing the inhabitants and leaving the many thousands and islands and cays that remain today. Some of these stories include clues which hint at a much greater catastrophe. One from Tobago speaks of 'the ole moon breaking', while others from Venezuela and the Yucatan allude to a period of darkness, fire falling from the sky and the presence overhead of a fiery snake.

 

The presence of around 500,000 elliptical craters, ranging from a few hundred metres to 11 kilometres in size, across the entire eastern seaboard of the United States, from New Jersey down to Miami, is perhaps the greatest clue. Modern theories are that these so-called Carolina Bays (after the states in which they were first noted during aerial surveys in the 1920s) were caused by a comet which entered the earth's atmosphere from the north-west over Alaska and disintegrated into millions of pieces that detonated above the ground, very much in the manner of the small comet which caused the Tunguska event in Siberia in June 1908.

 

The effects of the catastrophe, some time around the end of the last Ice Age, were extreme. Not only would it have caused a wall of fire and wind, which would have laid flat large areas of Tundra forest and decimated flora and fauna, but the resulting dust clouds would have created a 'nuclear winter' which seems to have resulted in a temporary re-advance of the ice fields that had covered much of North America, Europe and Asia for the previous 40,000 years. Moreover, hundreds and thousands of fragments of the comet falling in the western Atlantic basin would have produced tsunami waves of immense proportions which would have temporarily drowned both the eastern seaboard of the United States and the islands of the Bahamas and Caribbean, wiping out entire populations (a few must have got away to tell the tale, as it told in the creation myths of the indigenous peoples of both Central and North America, and also those of the Caribbean).

 

Could memories of this cataclysmic event have been preserved across millennia until they were recounted eventually to Spanish explorers that reached in the Bahamas and Caribbean in the wake of 1492? If so, were the same tales told to Phoenician and Carthaginian voyagers who visited these same islands prior to Plato's age? Did Plato come to hear not only of the islands which existed in the outer ocean, but also of the cataclysm which once devastated this self same region? Did it cause the landmass to be inundated by flood waters, splitting it into individual islands - temporarily at first, but then more permanently when eventually the ice fields of North America, Europe and Asia finally began to melt, causing the sea-level to rise by as much as 100 metres? Thus was the sinking of Atlantis a memory of the submergence of both the former Bahaman landmass and the low-lying regions of the Caribbean? Certainly we can say that all this took place around the very same time that Plato tells us Atlantis was destroyed by 'one terrible day and night of earthquakes and floods'. Moreover, if the Caribbean islands did once form part of Atlantis, then it would mean that part of the landmass was still above water today

 

Just looking at the area in question you can clearly see submerged ancient lands.

Edited November 6, 2011 by Immortal4life

[ralis]

It is definitely true that there are theories about and traces of metoer, perhaps even atomic, bombardment.

 

What kind of catacalysm hit the globe so hard to wipeout the previous prehistoric cultures?

 

Nuclear technology was developed by the Manhattan Project. Nuclear weapons are the result of that research, not some far flung myth that nuclear weapons were brought here by aliens!

 

Why not take Encephalon's advice and study science. MIT offers free math and science video courses.

 

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

Edited November 6, 2011 by ralis

[Birch]

Nuclear technology was developed by the Manhattan Project. Nuclear weapons are the result of that research, not some far flung myth that nuclear weapons were brought here by aliens!

 

Why not take Encephalon's advice and study science. MIT offers free math and science video courses.

 

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

 

 

That's a good idea! I wonder if Mexican universities offer similar and what (if any) differences there might be between them. Isn't internet great ?

[ralis]

That's a good idea! I wonder if Mexican universities offer similar and what (if any) differences there might be between them. Isn't internet great ?

 

MIT Open Course Ware is fantastic! Here are more resources.

 

http://freevideolectures.com/blog/2011/11/arsdigita-university-free-video-courses/

[michael245]

The mayans didn't believe those are passages to the underworld,that's just a phony theory.

Edited November 7, 2011 by michael245

[gendao]

Edited November 9, 2011 by vortex

[Immortal4life]

That's a good addition to this thread. +1