Science, mathematics, research....those are contemporary concepts which are probably very far away from the maya vision of the world. What about gods and spirituality ?
Wonderful. The idea of LCM seems to have originated independently in Ancient Greece Euclid perhaps ,India (as we know it today),China and central America. Attribution, as you say, places the synchronicity of the cycles into a special social category. I wonder to what end?
Every scientific tradition begins to feel more human when it has a name. Discovering Sak Tahn Waax reminds us that behind great ideas there was always a curious mind looking at the same sky we still observe today.
I've actually dug inside a Mayan temple in Belize and wasn't terribly impressed. That said, this is exemplary news. And goes a long way to explaining the Mayan gifts of astronomy and mathematics, even if their architecture was wanting in serious ways. I wish I could upload some photos. Regardless, this is very cool news. You wrote this: "a genuinely new approach to tracking planetary motion." I want to know more about this. This is truly fascinating.
Science, mathematics, research....those are contemporary concepts which are probably very far away from the maya vision of the world. What about gods and spirituality ?
I agree with Sean. I want to know more about the approach to tracking planetary motion and how it's "genuinely new"!
Wonderful. The idea of LCM seems to have originated independently in Ancient Greece Euclid perhaps ,India (as we know it today),China and central America. Attribution, as you say, places the synchronicity of the cycles into a special social category. I wonder to what end?
Every scientific tradition begins to feel more human when it has a name. Discovering Sak Tahn Waax reminds us that behind great ideas there was always a curious mind looking at the same sky we still observe today.
Very excited about these news.
Just a note that Xultún-Bartolo is on the north part of the country, north of Tikal, not south of Guatemala city.
I've actually dug inside a Mayan temple in Belize and wasn't terribly impressed. That said, this is exemplary news. And goes a long way to explaining the Mayan gifts of astronomy and mathematics, even if their architecture was wanting in serious ways. I wish I could upload some photos. Regardless, this is very cool news. You wrote this: "a genuinely new approach to tracking planetary motion." I want to know more about this. This is truly fascinating.
Fabulous. All civilisations had their intrinsic structures for studying and deciphering our universe.
The fact that we can even read the Maya glyphs at all is amazing as there was no Rosetta Stone moment.