SUGGEST REMOVALYou are reporting the following posting. By: "MEXICO CITY â Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. "Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." ... "It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six." Bernal suggests that apocalypse is "a very Western, Christian" concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are "exhausted." ... Took longer to copy/paste the relevant bits than to actually find the article from last month. Please explain in the space below the infraction(s) you found in this posting. |
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