2012: The 2012circus for dummies
on Nov 12, 2009 in Entertainment Mayanist studies New age and creationism 2012 2012 movie 666 Annunaki Apocalypto Atlantis Aztec Baktun Bolon Yookte’ K’uh Bosnian pyramids Burak Eldem Calendar Calleman Coba Conspiracy theory Creationism David Jay Jordan Ethnocentrism Gematria Gregg Braden John Major Jenkins Kinnekulle Lawrence Joseph Maya Mel Gibson New Age Nibiru Nostradamus Numerology Pakal Palenque Patrick Geryl Playboy Pseudoscience Pyramids Roland Emmerich Saint Bridget Sergey Smelyakov Temporality Terrence McKenna Tomorrow Emmerich’s ultimate disaster movie has worldwide premiere. Most reviews have already given it thumbs down and based on what I have seen of the movie so far I am not likely to give it a positive remark. For those not acquainted with what t...

New inscriptions at Chichen Itza
on Nov 8, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Architecture Casa Colorada Chichen Itza Ek Balam Epigraphy Maya Mexico Stela Earlier this week INAH announced that excavations at the Casa Colorada (Red House) complex at Chichen Itza have unearthed a new hieroglyphic inscription that refers to the year AD 869, the likely date of dedication of the complex. The inscriptions si...

Caste War fortifications at Ichmul
on Nov 5, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Caste War Cochuah Creole Fortification Fortin Yo'okop Ichmul Mexico Warfare Yo'okop The Cochuah region has not been a peaceful area. At Yo’okop we have evidence of several fortifications that may even date to separate events (such as the Terminal Classic abandonment and the later Postclassic reoccupation and abandonment of the sit...

2012: Thank you Emmerich
on Nov 4, 2009 in Entertainment New age and creationism 2012 2012 movie Golden Raspberry Movies Roland Emmerich I have now read the first review of the 2012 movie and it is being treated as expected: “We haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. The latest global disaster movie from director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow)...

2012: Conspiracy pt 1
on Nov 1, 2009 in New age and creationism 2012 9/11 Conspiracy theory David Wilcock Lloyd Pye Michael Tsarion Pseudoscience One of the recurrent themes in the 2012 circus is conspiracy theory. The most popular conspiracy theory today is the one related to the 9/11 event (and in my post on numerology you can see that number 11 is important for these hoaxers). The 9/11 cons...

Bomb…?
on Oct 29, 2009 in Events Bomb Göteborg tram And now something completely different. You probably won’t believe this but my house and street is currently being blocked off by the police. A man with a possible bomb belt entered tram # 6 in Göteborg. At least six police cars and an ambulan...

2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax – ethnocentrism and Annunaki
on Oct 28, 2009 in Mayanist studies New age and creationism 2012 Annunaki Apocalypto Chichen Itza CNN Egypt El Mirador Ethnocentrism Homo erectus Maya Mesopotamia New Age Pseudoscience Pyramids Running Wild Tikal Zecharia Sitchin Not long after CNN posted the El Mirador videos on internet the site was caught up in the 2012circus. Just the fact that it appears to have been completely unheard of before this is just revealing how ignorant the 2012ers are. The site has been known...

El Pilar – Nohol Pilar’s ballcourt and E-group
on Oct 27, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Belize El Pilar Maya Before my fieldwork in the Cochuah region I spent four seasons in the Belize Valley. I first spent one season (1997) at Baking Pot. During a weekend I took a taxi to El Pilar, the largest site in the Upper Belize Valley. I liked the site and I later...

Visitor statistics
on Oct 27, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Blog Maya Statistics Visitors Since I moved my blog to WordPress seven months ago I have created 180 posts and had over 100,000 hits. I believe it now is the largest “Mayanist blog” in terms of the number of hits. The overall statistics from the start is 503 visitors a day (t...

Same same but different Maya novel
on Oct 26, 2009 in Entertainment Mayanist studies Fiction Heart of Time Maya Novel In two earlier posts I have mentioned my unpublished novel The Heart of Time (which have to be reworked before I ever send it to a publisher). Today I got an email from the author (David L. Smith) of a newly published novel called Jaguar Rising. Her...