kishore patnaik wrote:
> 1. Try this link..
>
> This is written by a famous scientist of India . He is certainly not a
> Hindutva.
A rather pathetic show for a famous scientits -- four pages (including
the abstract and the bibliography) and no substance at all. He repeats
the same old nonsense about churning the ocean in the Madrid Codex,
http://www.famsi.org/research/graz/madrid/img_page019.html
with five deities representing, I suppose, the Moon and the planets, who
are dragging the 'sun/day' glyph <kin> (but one has to be able to
recognise it -- it's on the right; amateur "decipherers" don't even
notice such things) attached to a circular cord, representing the
ecliptic and going through the five god's perforated penises (ouch!).
The pyramid no doubt stands for the world, and we know that the tortoise
was associated with the progress of the sun through the spring equinox
(another slow animal, the snail played that role in the autumn)... etc.
The symbols are quite transparent if you know anything about Maya
mythology. There's no ocean anywhere to be churned.
He also mentions elephants in Maya art (macaws, actually, unless you are
the type of man who sees elephants everywhere), "strange coincidences"
(swastikas, numerology) and other amazing things, but to debunk them one
would have to write an article much longer than the succinct original.
> The conch shell figured on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, is
> Turbinella angulata, the West Indian Chank. This species is closely
> related to the "Sacred Chank" of India, a shell which figures
> prominently in Hindu mythology, religion, and art. This finding may be
> interpreted as one more bit of evidence for transpacific influences on
> prehistoric Mesoamerican culture.
Few people these days would deny the possibility of occasional
trans-Pacific crossings before the arrival of the Europeans, but if so,
the sailors would have been most likely Polynesian, and certainly far
too late to have anything to do with the rise of the Maya civilisation.
Piotr