Above is a new video I've just published entitled "This Maya drinking vessel unlocks the mysteries of an Ancient World-Wide System of myth."
On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, this Maya cup contains a "codex-style" scene featuring the god Chahk (also spelled Chaahk): god of rain, wind, thunder, lightning and storm, as well as of fertility and increase.
Thus far, scholars appear to have missed the fact that this scene is patterned upon the constellations of the heavens -- and indeed that it contains elements common to the mythologies of other cultures around the globe, and associated with gods of wind and thunder and rain, including Zeus of Ancient Greece, Indra of ancient India, Shango (also spelled Shango) of the Yoruba of Western Africa, and Thor of the Norse, among others.
The evidence is so strong in the artwork on this beautiful Maya drinking vessel that it could well be seen as the key which definitively establishes the existence of the ancient world-wide system of metaphor which connects the myths of cultures on every inhabited continent and island of our earth, including the stories and figures collected into what we call the Bible. They all share a common foundation of celestial metaphor and thus are in fact closely related -- much as they have (catastrophically) been used to divide us from one another.
Special thank-you and kudos to viewer Rick B, who left a comment on a previous video linking to a video discussing this Maya cup (here).
Rick noticed "the bend of the Rain god's knees" and made the connection to other presentations I've given showing mythological figures associated with the constellation Hercules -- and I agree with Rick 100% that the god Chahk can be definitively shown to be associated with the constellation Hercules (as are so many other wind, rain and storm gods around the globe), not only by the bend of the knees but by many other compelling pieces of evidence included in the artwork on this Maya vessel, pieces of evidence that would be glaringly obvious to scholars, if they only understood the constellations and their connection to myths and sacred traditions.
Unfortunately, there is resistance to admitting that the myths of the world are operating upon a shared foundation of celestial metaphor -- because the existence of that world-wide system has profound implications for our understanding of ancient human history. In short, this evidence indicates that our conventional paradigm of ancient history is gravely flawed and in need of radical revision.
Check out this video exploring some of the most compelling evidence found in the Maya codex-style drinking vessel and its artwork, attributed to an artist known to scholars only by the modern designation of "the Metropolitan Master" -- evidence which shows beyond any doubt that the sacred traditions of the Maya are related to the sacred traditions of other cultures around the globe, and which shows beyond doubt that we are in fact all connected in some profound (but now forgotten) way.
And as you do, you might want to thank that unknown artist (the "Metropolitan Master") for creating this amazing artwork, which must rank among the most important in the world, because it so clearly demonstrates the existence of this system in the Americas, just as it can be demonstrated to be operating in the myths of ancient Sumer, and ancient Babylon, and ancient Assyria, and ancient Egypt, and ancient India, and ancient Greece, and the other cultures of Europe whose inherited sacred traditions were stamped out by literalist Christianity, and the mythology of the Norse, and of the cultures of Africa, and of Australia, and of ancient China and Japan, and of shamanic traditions in other parts of Asia, and of the cultures of Polynesia belonging to the islands stretching across the vast Pacific.