What's Yours is Mayan
Published Friday, April 28, 2006 by have Metrocard, will travel | E-mail this post
Today’s soundtrack: an angel off the page
Today at 10:02am: making the best goddamn cup of coffee I know how to
I’ve got a friend who alerted me to a popularly-held belief (among followers of the Mayans) that the world will end in 2012.
According to what she’d heard, this belief is predicated on the fact that the Mayans had calendars for every year from their existence up until 2012, and then there are no more.
Well, I think that’s hardly conclusive. What if like, the Mayan guy who made the calendars just got in a fight with his boss and quit? He could’ve been like “Fuck this shit, I ain’t making no more of these goddamn calendars, I’m out of here” and his boss was like “But you’re only up to 2012, and the world doesn’t end until 3675” but the calendar maker was like “I don’t give a fuck, you either let me take my kids to the pyramids on Thursdays or you can kiss my ass.” And then he went off to start his own company making calendars with pictures of firefighters on them, but he couldn’t find any firefighters because there were none back then so he went broke.
Whatever happened to the Mayans, anyway? I’m guessing they all died in a fire.
One time I was in a lesbian bookstore in Provincetown, Massachusetts (long story) and the bookstore owner said I looked Mayan, and asked if I was Mayan.
Are you out of your fucking mind, didn’t the Mayans die out like two thousand years ago? I thought to say. Instead I just said “Thanks.”
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The Mayan peoples are very much alive. I've worked at a couple different restaurant jobs with a couple different Mayans, and I know this: don't let them hear you dissin' their existence. They'll throw down.
(Actually, they probably won't, but they still exist.)
I think you're thinking of the Aztecs. But I might be wrong.
both the mayans and the aztecs still exist. but if they had died out, man you better believe it would have been from fire. fire, and diseases spread by european conquerors.
Thank you, Wikipedia!
having spent some time WITH mayans in belize, i too can vouch for their continued existence. and there are popular theories for why their civilization "disappeared" such as a combination of ecological reasons + warfare. history lesson over. i was mistaken for mayan indian a coupla times too. i don't think u (or i) look anything remotely like them. but i also think some yupiq indians are spot on japanese.
considering the aztecs and those other south american indigenous people all got their shit ruined, I would assume the mayans befell the same fate.
But I guess... not? according to your somments, anyways.
Just came back from Mexico in Feburary, those Mayan type's still do exist. Met a few of those fella's. Nice Group.
Found out why a lot of thier stuff isn't around. Apparently some psycho European Priest burned over 98% of their written texts, books, papers, calanders and things of the like. That's why it's very hard to find any actual history on these peeps. A lot of it is just speculation, or I guess the science type people call it "theories".
Anyways, thought I'd give my learnded experience to this convo.
Peace out homies.