[Aztlan] "Maya Calendar" as shown on Sci Fi Program on Crystal Skulls

[Nick Hopkins]

IMHO, that "calendar disk" is as hokey as the rest of that program,  
which I ran across by accident while channel surfing.  Note that  
among the explanations of the skulls' origin (extraterrestrials, lost  
civilizations...) they never ever even mentioned the mainstream  
scholars' view that all of them are fakes (well, that is, none of  
them are precolumbian artifacts--see the latest issue of Archaeology).

Nick Hopkins

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On May 21, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Ditra Walsh wrote:

> Dear Listeros,
>
> During the program on Sci Fi recently, entitled "Mystery of the  
> Crystal Skulls", an image of what was supposed to be a Maya  
> Calendar disk was shown repeatedly.  It looked to me like the Aztec  
> Sun Stone with a Maya type image of a man in the center, surrounded  
> by a circle of tzolkin glyphs for the day signs, superimposed on  
> it.  Am I correct about this?  An image similar to the one shown  
> can be found at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-665747.html.   
> Somebody a while ago asked on this list if there is a Maya Calendar  
> disk similar to the Aztec Sun Stone disk, and I don't recall what  
> the answer was.
>
> Thanks for any input. Ditra Walsh
>
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