Re: India first -- typo correction

I am not sure if linguists are competent enough to dismiss this essay just because it is posted in a Hindu religious website.

 

1. If the credentials of Sthapathy as mentioned in the article are correct, he has got all the formal qualifications and vast experience in the filed of modern  Architecture as well as in Indian traditional architecture, to be able to compare the mayan architecture with that of Indian traditional temples. 

 

2. The principles enunciated by him of the vastu sastra in the article are also generally correct, though words like Mandala have more profound meaning than a mere 8 X 8 squares.

So, why not have an open mind and discuss? After all,  the mayan mythology itself points an eastern origin !! Robert sharer discusses the asian origins of these people in his book on mayans. 

Philosophically too, the Hunab Ku of Mayans conceptually is more closer to Parabrahman of Indians, than to any   description of  Almighty by other religions.  The belief of Mayans that the universe will be created and destroyed multiple times echoes the Indian system of Yuga and Pralaya.
 
Btw, I would like to post here a comment by Jose Arguella, found on the web :

http://fusionanomaly.net/maya.html

Yet, to evoke the Maya of Central America is at the same time to evoke a curious resonance from the East, from India.  After all, Maya is a key Hindu philosophical term meaning "origin of the world" and "world of illusion."  The word Maya in Sanskrit is further related to concepts meaning "great,""measure,""mind,"" magic," and "mother."  Not surprisingly, we find that Maya is the name of the mother of the Buddha.  And in the Vedic classic, _The Mahabharata_, we read that Maya was the name of a noted astrologer-astronomer, magician, and architect, as well as the name of a great wandering tribe of navigators.

Not only in ancient India, home of high metaphysics and spiritual adventure, do we find the name Maya, but also farther to the west.  The treasurer of the renowned boy-king of Egypt, Tutankhamen, was named Maya, while in Egyptian philosophy we find the term Mayet, meaning universal world order.  In Greek mythology, the seven Pleiades , daughters of Atlas and Pleione and sisters of the Hyades, number among them one called Maia, also known as the brightest star of the constellation Pleiades.  And finally, we know that our month of May is derived from the name of the Roman goddess, Maia, "the great one," the goddess of spring, daughter of Faunus and wife of Vulcan.

- Jose Arguelles - _The Mayan Factor_