Date December 10, 36 BC e. inextricably linked with the mysterious culture of the Maya Indians. The first stele with the date of the Mayan calendar, discovered during excavations in Mexico, dates from this day. Scientists are still struggling to solve the calendar. Why is there only 260 days in it, why did the Maya call it "Traces of God", and most importantly - is it true that it contains the exact date of the end of the world? There are no answers to these questions yet. The calendar has become just one of the many secrets of the Maya, the most interesting of which are in the collection of "WG".
Man made skulls
The Maya Indians are credited with the authorship of the amazing skulls discovered by archaeologists, carved from quartz, amethyst and crystal. One of the artifacts known as the "Skull of Destiny" is kept in the New York Museum. The skull has unusual optical properties. By placing any light source under it, you can see how the eye sockets of the skull begin to glow. If you place a small object in the place of the light source under the skull, then, peering into the eye sockets, you can distinguish this object inside the skull itself. Scientists cannot yet explain how the Indians carved these skulls with jewelry precision and optical surprises. By the way, the German Nazis believed that whoever collected 13 of these skulls would gain power over the world.
Cenotes
One of the secrets of the Maya is kept at the bottom of the wells. Special holes in the ground, in which underground water flowed, were considered sacred by the Indians. There they left sacrifices, through the wells of the Maya they kept in touch with the mystical underworld. According to another version, of these failures, the Indians - famous amateurs of astronomy - watched the sun at its zenith. The column of sunlight was plunged vertically into the water. It is noteworthy that now tourists can visit cenotes. Some of them are open for diving.
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Bloodletting
The Maya Indians remained in the legends a very bloodthirsty people. It is known that they made human sacrifices, tore out the hearts of the victims, and even, it seems, did not disdain cannibalism. And there is another Indian secret in this. Since modern scientists assume that the Maya were not at all cruel, but they blew out blood to people for sacred purposes, releasing and freeing the soul of the deceased. Another version, sacral - bloodletting changed the work of the brain, hallucinations appeared, which the Maya considered visions from above.
Game for life
The Maya football addiction is well known. However, scientists suspect it was more than a sport. According to one version, the Maya chased a human skull covered with skin across the field, symbolizing the epic struggle of the forces of Light with the evil gods. Moreover, the losers were sacrificed by the whole team. This gave rise to the second version, according to which the Maya had a kind of gladiator fights. And at the same time, the captives of the Indians came out onto the field. The losers were tied together and rolled down the numerous steps of the temples. At the same time, little reached the bottom of the temple.
Talking crosses
Another Mayan mystery is associated with Christianity. Symbols of the cross have been found in Indian temple buildings in Palenque. According to legend, wooden crosses spoke from the Maya and provided valuable guidance. For example, to fight with pale faces. Now these same crosses are in the Mexican Kitana Roo and are still the object of worship. They just don't say anything yet.
Indian astronauts
In the same temple in Palenque, a sarcophagus lid was found, which provided rich food for the research of the famous ufologist Erich von Daniken. The fact is that on the Mayan lid, a person was depicted (presumably) sitting in something that looked like a spaceship (presumably). The ufologist himself believed that this is a representative of the disappeared civilization of the Atlanteans in the cockpit of an aircraft of that time. Daniken even made out the seat belt on the "pilot". Some prefer a more prosaic explanation: on the lid of the sarcophagus, the priest-ruler Pakal on his way to Xibalba - the underworld.
Maya origin
The origins of the Maya have always been a headache for anthropologists. When the tombs of the Indians were partially investigated, it turned out that the Maya buried their fellow tribesmen in sarcophagi, according to the principle of the Egyptians. Rich jewelry, symbolic objects, and carefully crafted death masks have led scientists to speculate that the ancestors of the Maya may have been the Egyptians. That radically changes the version about the origin of the tribe from Atlantis. This means that the relatives of the Indians still live somewhere.
Alexander Kornev
