Mayan Cosmology
Weekly Response
This week Professor Wil van Breugel’s lecture was on “Masks of the Universe: Cosmologies Since the Beginning of Time”. He discussed how humans viewed
The Universe, The Maya Cosmology, and The End of Time in 2012. Breugel explained how we see the universe through magic then mythic then finally scientific. Which I agree on because we do see the universe magically, imagining it as a place that is endless, mythically by believing that there are aliens or a higher being, and scientifically by proving stars are gases or how the big bang sounds.
Questions Breugel asked that still have me thinking are, “What is life? What is the Universe?” At every age, through out the world people believe they have discovered the true universe …show more content…
This process was how the Mayan went through many gods before creating humans. The Mayan failed to create real people many times. The farthest the Mayan got to was discovering the separation of the sky and Earth. They lived in a belief that they lived inside a god who provided food, water, and all the tools they needed to make clothing, housing, or hunting tools. The ancient Mayan though, all shared the same idea of the universe. Believing that every human action was supposed to be meant to please their gods to maintain a natural balance of the world. Also, if they followed the hypothesis, they believed their god would continue to protect their …show more content…
There is nothing we humans can do to avoid it entering the Milky Way. If the universe enters it will cause the ending of a cycle. It is quite hard to understand this without fearing it. But as said by Nicholas Lea, “Everything has an end.” Breugel also mentioned an inscription of Tortuguero monument 6, which talks about the end of a “creation period”. It is an idea where the Mayan calendar only lasted a certain amount (5,125 year long count) calling it the nine steps of evolution. They named it the nine steps of evolution after the nine-step pyramid, which represents the nine underworlds. The nine underworlds from top to bottom are Universal Underworld, Galactic Underworld, Planetary Underworld, National Underworld, Regional Underworld, Tribal Underworld, Familial Underworld, Mammalian Underworld, and Cellular Underworld. Many humans fear to accept this information because of all the evidence behind it prove that the Mayan calendar is correct.
Science is the way humans understand they history of the world, how the world works, and how to prove evolution or the big bang with physical evidence and experiments. In many cases scientist gather information to test new ideas to improve or prove old ones. Their ideas can lead from atoms, to cells, to a new species, and to trying to figure out the universe. What is know about the universe are the orbits of the
This week Professor Wil van Breugel’s lecture was on “Masks of the Universe: Cosmologies Since the Beginning of Time”. He discussed how humans viewed
The Universe, The Maya Cosmology, and The End of Time in 2012. Breugel explained how we see the universe through magic then mythic then finally scientific. Which I agree on because we do see the universe magically, imagining it as a place that is endless, mythically by believing that there are aliens or a higher being, and scientifically by proving stars are gases or how the big bang sounds.
Questions Breugel asked that still have me thinking are, “What is life? What is the Universe?” At every age, through out the world people believe they have discovered the true universe …show more content…
This process was how the Mayan went through many gods before creating humans. The Mayan failed to create real people many times. The farthest the Mayan got to was discovering the separation of the sky and Earth. They lived in a belief that they lived inside a god who provided food, water, and all the tools they needed to make clothing, housing, or hunting tools. The ancient Mayan though, all shared the same idea of the universe. Believing that every human action was supposed to be meant to please their gods to maintain a natural balance of the world. Also, if they followed the hypothesis, they believed their god would continue to protect their …show more content…
There is nothing we humans can do to avoid it entering the Milky Way. If the universe enters it will cause the ending of a cycle. It is quite hard to understand this without fearing it. But as said by Nicholas Lea, “Everything has an end.” Breugel also mentioned an inscription of Tortuguero monument 6, which talks about the end of a “creation period”. It is an idea where the Mayan calendar only lasted a certain amount (5,125 year long count) calling it the nine steps of evolution. They named it the nine steps of evolution after the nine-step pyramid, which represents the nine underworlds. The nine underworlds from top to bottom are Universal Underworld, Galactic Underworld, Planetary Underworld, National Underworld, Regional Underworld, Tribal Underworld, Familial Underworld, Mammalian Underworld, and Cellular Underworld. Many humans fear to accept this information because of all the evidence behind it prove that the Mayan calendar is correct.
Science is the way humans understand they history of the world, how the world works, and how to prove evolution or the big bang with physical evidence and experiments. In many cases scientist gather information to test new ideas to improve or prove old ones. Their ideas can lead from atoms, to cells, to a new species, and to trying to figure out the universe. What is know about the universe are the orbits of the