donald r raab Wrote:
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> Duncan,
>
> I've mentioned it before on this board. Look at
> the appendix of the Tedlock paperback Popul Vu.
> He references Tozzer as being told that there was
> a cord in the sky. This was a physical object.
> It supposedly was used to transport food for the
> kings and went from Xamal,Coba, to Tullum.
>
> I cought a lot of flack here suggesting that
> Tozzer was talking about a real object that
> represented some kind of technology.
you obviously don't read what is posted to you in a discussion. I posted the entire quote from Tozzer to you before. It does NOT say it was some sort of technology.
Here it is again:
sky umbilicus
Posted by: bernard (IP Logged)
Date: October 19, 2006 11:08AM
Here is the complete quote from Tozzer
Alfred M Tozzer. 1907.
A comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones New York; Macmillan.
pp. 153-154 “ .. . there was a road suspended in the sky, stretching from Tuloom and Coba to Chich’en Itza and Uxmal. This pathway was called the kuxan sum or sakbe. It was in the nature of a large rope [sum] supposed to be a living [kuxan] and in the middle flowed blood. It was by this rope that the food was sent to the ancient rulers who lived in the structures now in ruins. For some reason this rope vanished forever. This first epoch was separated from the second by a flood called Halyokokab.”
This was, as I pointed out before, ethnographic information on modern Mayas and Lacandones not supposedly pre-Columbian.
as completely out of place with the orthodox
> view here. The appendix says what it says. it is
> not talking about mythology or philosophy.
> Interestingly it also mentions that the cord was
> destroyed during a flood.
Again can't you read? what it says is " For some reason this rope vanished forever," THEN after a period, referring to two epochs, probably a second creation, (not to the supposed sky umbilicus) "This first epoch was separated from the second by a flood called Halyokokab.”
That flood does not have
> to be a genesis type event. A good 100 year
> hurricane could do the same. I presently live in
> NOLA.
>
> Most interesting. When I visited Chichen Itza a
> tour guide book by Linda Schele offered in the
> local souvenier shop stated that the cord or
> remmnants of it were supposedly buried under the
> ball court.
>
> I always wondered if any GPR work was done in the
> ballcourt. The ballcourts seemed to play a larger
> role than just a game to the Maya. Burying real
> objects under floors etc. seems to be common for
> both the Olmec and Maya.
Bernard