{"id":7704,"date":"2023-08-29T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikisolver.com\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:48:17","slug":"lesson-from-the-maya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/lesson-from-the-maya\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson From the Maya"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7704\" class=\"elementor elementor-7704\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d23a649 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5d23a649\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31dc70a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"31dc70a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/uyp.jhl.mybluehost.me\/the-categoric-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earthly achievements<\/a> of the Maya are well known and beyond dispute. In fact, at their peak they equaled, if not surpassed, renowned contemporaries like the Greeks and Chinese. Accordingly, it is astonishing, allowing even for the stifling effect of the Spanish Conquest, that Maya <a href=\"https:\/\/uyp.jhl.mybluehost.me\/popol-vuh-ethical-moral-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">religion<\/a> \u2013long since dismissed at best as mythological, and at worst as demonic- philosophy and ethics are simply ignored by both Western and Eastern thought. By way of proof, when was the last time that their standards were mentioned, much less invoked, in the mainstream media?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do not suggest adopting Maya religion; the world has plenty of them. But we should be cognizant of the irreconcilable difference between their specific religious commandment \u201cDo not sacrifice human beings\u201d and their universal practice of doing so over hundreds, if not thousands of years. Either that commandment never existed or it was ignored. In either case, it suggests profound \u2013if not bottomless- religious corruption, the one element that governed their everyday lives, and the consequences thereof, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/royal-massacre-site-discovered-in-ruins-of-ancient-maya-city-skeletons-of-slain-men-women-and-children-found-with-precious-adornments-59168\/#:~:text=Demarest%2C%20Ingram%20Professor%20of%20Anthropology,of%20the%20palace%20at%20Cancu%C3%A9n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">self-destruction<\/a> 600 years before the Spanish Conquest. \u00a0 Accordingly, given today\u2019s predicament \u2013a <a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/doomsday-clock\/current-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high and growing risk of thermonuclear war<\/a> between the U.S. and Russia\/China and <a href=\"https:\/\/scientistswarning.org\/scientists-warning-of-a-climate-emergency-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anthropomorphic climate change<\/a> threatening to destroy our only habitat, it is long past due that collectively we admit and accept that what we\u2019ve been doing since the advent of the first industrial revolution no longer works and that the status quo is going to succumb, one way or another, before fundamental and radical change. All we can do is make it happen gradually and imperceptibly, and the first step to do so is to deal with today\u2019s abysmal inequality.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earthly achievements of the Maya are well known and beyond dispute. In fact, at their peak they equaled, if not surpassed, renowned contemporaries like the Greeks and Chinese. Accordingly, it is astonishing, allowing even for the stifling effect of the Spanish Conquest, that Maya religion \u2013long since dismissed at best as mythological, and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42905,"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions\/42905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikisolver.org\/staging\/6797\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}