06-15-2011, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
they thought killing their children and eating their hearts would help them with their drought and crop growing problems and you are calling them the most astrologically advanced civilization? Maybe instead of watching tv you should actually read a book about the Mayans instead. They didn't predict anything, they stopped making calendars when the spanish killed most of them and forced the rest to abandon their religions and beliefs and to take on christianity instead.
Lay off the vodka.. that shit is making you crazy...
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you're shitting me right? you might want to lay off the idiotic Mel Gibson movies and do some research, google is your friend...
http://www.experiment-resources.com/...astronomy.html
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Very few ancient astronomers capture the imagination in quite the same way as the Mayans, perhaps because of the conspiracy theories surrounding the alleged end of the world in 2012, as predicted by their calendar. Their incredibly accurate astronomical calculations and sophisticated mathematics were steeped in religion and omens, their priests discerning the very will of the gods behind the occurrences of natural phenomena.
Read more: http://www.experiment-resources.com/...#ixzz1PNJKFKQU
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and http://www.starteachastronomy.com/mayan.html
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Mayan Mathematics
The Maya mathematical system on which all this was based was incredibly advanced, and it was developed starting about 500 B.C.E. During the period of the Dark Ages in Europe, the Mayan system was more refined than any in the world at that time. They used a vigesimal, or base 20, number system, which seems foreign to us but is actually quite easy to use with practice. Mayan numbers consist of a series of dots and bars, where dots have a value of one and bars represent five. The numbers one through nineteen, and a series of glyphs representing the number zero, are shown in the picture below.
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