Above is a brand-new video I've just posted entitled "Artwork of the Maya demolishes the conventional historical paradigm."
The video explores parallels between artwork in Maya stone sculptures thought to date to the period between AD 580 and AD 800 and ancient artwork from Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient India and ancient Greece -- parallels which simply cannot be explained within the conventional paradigm taught in school and reinforced on television in a thousand different ways.
Join me as I reveal how these parallels actually point to the existence of an ancient world-wide language of celestial metaphor, which forms the foundation for virtually all of the world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories.
Below is a photograph of a sculpted relief found on a lintel stone from the Maya site of Bonampak, in modern-day Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico bordering Guatemala, depicting a triumphant warrior standing over a defeated foe, whom he is menacing with a downward-pointing spear while simultaneously grasping the hair of his defeated opponent:
image: Wikimedia commons (link).
The way this scene is interpreted by conventional academics is as evidence that the Maya, once thought of as "the peaceful Maya," were actually quite violent. In other words, the scene is interpreted as if it depicts a literal, historical, and terrestrial episode.
Here is the caption at the Museum of Man in San Diego, California, accompanying a reproduction of this lintel scene (photograph by your hard-working author):
The caption reads:
Though once thought of as the "peaceful Maya," abundant evidence such as the captive-taking scene on this stone lintel from Bonampak indicates that warfare was an integral part of life for Maya city-states. The victor is represented in full battle regalia, including the image of a trophy skull on his chest. The captive is stripped of his finery and held firmly by the hair -- a Maya sign of defeat.
Whether or not "warfare was an integral part of life for Maya city-states," I am not in a position to say -- but I can say with a high degree of confidence that this lintel-scene should not be included in any supposedly "abundant evidence" to support such an assertion about the actual prevalence of warfare in the Maya period, because the scene in this artwork is entirelycelestialin nature, as demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt by the discussion in my video.
Indeed, the scene itself has clear and undeniable parallels to scenes found in many other pieces of ancient artwork, including works from ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, and others. I would argue that this important lintel-piece from Bonampak almost single-handedly demolishes the conventional paradigm of history which continues to be advanced by academia, despite overwhelming evidence showing that the conventional paradigm is gravely flawed and in need of radical revision.
This is not to detract from the Museum of Man in San Diego: I am actually very supportive of the museum's exhibition of incredible Maya artwork, including the awe-inspiring sculpted stelae and zoomorphic boulders on display. The museum, as with virtually all other museums, is simply repeating what they are told by scholars in the field, who thus far remain unaware of the undeniable evidence that scenes like this are celestial in nature -- as are virtually all of the world's ancient myths, where we find textual descriptions of episodes such as the slaying of Humbaba (or Huwawa) which can also be shown to be based on the same constellations as those which form the foundation for the Bonampak lintel-scene.
Please feel free to share the above video with any academics you know(as well as with anyone else who might find this information to be beneficial).
I would highly recommend visiting the incredible examples of Maya artwork on display in San Diego if at all possible. The pieces are actually high-quality replicas made from casts of the originals taken on-site at Quirigua, located in present-day Guatemala, in 1914. The nearly-exact, life-sized reproductions of the stelae and zoomorphs have been on display since 1915, in the same building where they are located today. Despite the fact that they are not the originals, the power of the artwork and the scale of the monuments can still inspire awe.
Stela E is fully 25 feet in height (your humble author is about 6' 3"):
