Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> I'm still tyring to figure out why the Mayans have
> so much more credibility than say the Book of
> Revelations.
>
Because (the idea of) ancient Mayans are 'foreign' and 'romantic', and trendy, and New-Agey, in a way that the old, humdrum, familiar since forever Book of Revelations.

Actual factual ancient Mayans, maybe not so much, at least to 9 out of 10 randomly-met strangers on the street. (The academic community doesn't count. Neither do amateurs who actually read the publications by the academic community.)

Homeopathic History?


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It is hard to convey five-dimensional ideas in a language evolved to scream defiance at the monkeys in the next tree. -- The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen