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"(BEGIN VIDEO)
BALDWIN: From the air, it looks like just jungle. But these forests in Guatemala hide an ancient secret: the city of Mirador, often referred to as the cradle of Mayan civilization, the size of a modern day metropolis. This is no mountain. It's a pyramid. And according to the Mirador Basin Project, it may be the largest pyramid by volume in the world. CNN is traveling with the project's director and lead archaeologist, Richard Hansen, and the founder of the Global Heritage Fund, Jeff Morgan.
RICHARD HANSEN, DIR., MIRADOR BASIN PROJECT: The pyramid is a structure the world should know, because it represents an investment of labor unprecedented in the world's history. Every single stone in that building, from the bottom to the top, was carried by human labor.
BALDWIN: And the work to save this pyramid is delicate, done by hand. Guatemalan archaeologists painstakingly help uncover pieces of history built by their ancestors. And the view from the top of La Donta, spectacular.
HANSEN: This is the sum of the Maya world.
BALDWIN: Here at the top of La Donta, we are 72 meters or about 224 feet from the forest floor. And when we talk about the sheer size of this area that is El Mirador, just one single Mayan city, archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen says it's size is larger than all of downtown Los Angeles. And he says there are still thousands of pyramids yet to be uncovered.
Then, Dr. Hansen shows us something few people have ever seen: a relic referred to as the Popol Vuh that is the Mayan story of creation. CNN cameras are the first to capture this fresh discovery, which Hansen says will rewrite Mayan history.
This is the creation story of the Mayan people.
HANSEN: This is the creation story, and it goes back to at least 300, 200 B.C.
BALDWIN: For decades, historians believe the Popol Vuh was tainted by the Catholic views of Spanish conquistadors. Finding this frieze changes everything, because it predates the Spanish arrival by more than a millennium. The challenge now is preserving this area, a jungle constantly under threat by narco traffickers, loggers and cattle ranchers. Hansen's guards are on constant standby to keep looters out.
HANSEN: Where we've had guards in cities throughout the basin, we've had no new looters' trenches. Where we haven't had the resources for that, we have lost 100 percent.
BALDWIN: Hansen has made Mirador his life's work and hopes to share these Mayan secrets with Guatemala and the world.
HANSEN: The science for the sake of science is sterile if it doesn't bless the lives of people. And by conserving this, we're blessing the lives of an entire nation.
(END VIDEO) "
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BALDWIN: From the air, it looks like just jungle. But these forests in Guatemala hide an ancient secret: the city of Mirador, often referred to as the cradle of Mayan civilization, the size of a modern day metropolis. This is no mountain. It's a pyramid. And according to the Mirador Basin Project, it may be the largest pyramid by volume in the world. CNN is traveling with the project's director and lead archaeologist, Richard Hansen, and the founder of the Global Heritage Fund, Jeff Morgan.
RICHARD HANSEN, DIR., MIRADOR BASIN PROJECT: The pyramid is a structure the world should know, because it represents an investment of labor unprecedented in the world's history. Every single stone in that building, from the bottom to the top, was carried by human labor.
BALDWIN: And the work to save this pyramid is delicate, done by hand. Guatemalan archaeologists painstakingly help uncover pieces of history built by their ancestors. And the view from the top of La Donta, spectacular.
HANSEN: This is the sum of the Maya world.
BALDWIN: Here at the top of La Donta, we are 72 meters or about 224 feet from the forest floor. And when we talk about the sheer size of this area that is El Mirador, just one single Mayan city, archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen says it's size is larger than all of downtown Los Angeles. And he says there are still thousands of pyramids yet to be uncovered.
Then, Dr. Hansen shows us something few people have ever seen: a relic referred to as the Popol Vuh that is the Mayan story of creation. CNN cameras are the first to capture this fresh discovery, which Hansen says will rewrite Mayan history.
This is the creation story of the Mayan people.
HANSEN: This is the creation story, and it goes back to at least 300, 200 B.C.
BALDWIN: For decades, historians believe the Popol Vuh was tainted by the Catholic views of Spanish conquistadors. Finding this frieze changes everything, because it predates the Spanish arrival by more than a millennium. The challenge now is preserving this area, a jungle constantly under threat by narco traffickers, loggers and cattle ranchers. Hansen's guards are on constant standby to keep looters out.
HANSEN: Where we've had guards in cities throughout the basin, we've had no new looters' trenches. Where we haven't had the resources for that, we have lost 100 percent.
BALDWIN: Hansen has made Mirador his life's work and hopes to share these Mayan secrets with Guatemala and the world.
HANSEN: The science for the sake of science is sterile if it doesn't bless the lives of people. And by conserving this, we're blessing the lives of an entire nation.
(END VIDEO) "
www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/...anscript.mon/
peoplemagazinedaily.com/
www.youtube.com/watch
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh
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Re: New Proof the Popol Vuh was NOT tainted by the Invasion...
Mon, November 2, 2009 - 8:22 PMI'm baffled by the logic implied by the title of this thread.
How, exactly, can stucco reliefs of mythological scenes constitute "proof" that a document written down 2000 years later, in Roman script, by someone who was apparently trained by Christian missionaries "was NOT tainted by the invasion"? -
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Re: New Proof the Popol Vuh was NOT tainted by the Invasion...
Wed, November 18, 2009 - 9:34 AMSimple. For One, It Proves the Popol Vuh was not FIRST written post invasion. Second, (if the Stories match up, and so far they do.) it proves that the Stories Written in the "New" one were, in fact, ancient stories from long before the invasion. (Including the Flood Myth)...
It means with out a doubt that the Popol Vuh is pre-invasion and thus could not have been Altered or Tainted by the Invasion.. Now, if you want to argue that the one Written Later on was Tainted. Well that is a Given, even if the Differences are only from Translation. It could be Argued that in that case the "New" Popol Vuh was not the Real one at all and should not even be called that. So running down that logic, once again the Real Popol Vuh was not Tainted. The important part here is to study both side by side. Which is being done now. Anyway, there is A untainted Popol Vuh that you can now read, I thought you would be happy. Maybe your Sad because you Heard it contains the Flood Myth, and from before Christ was supposed to have been Born... LOL
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Re: New Proof the Popol Vuh was NOT tainted by the Invasion...
Wed, November 18, 2009 - 9:42 AMThe flood is remembered in many cultures. What's the problem?
There's also a bowl with cuneform writing that was found in Bolivia.....and the people who wrote in that had a flood story too. -
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Re: New Proof the Popol Vuh was NOT tainted by the Invasion...
Wed, November 18, 2009 - 9:45 AMRongo rongo and ancient pictograms from the Indus valley are also the same....which means that people moved around a bit.
Why wouldn't they. We are the same and we do.
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