[Aztlan] Sci Fi Program on Crystal Skulls

[EJ Albright]

I believe the "disk" that was shown on the Sci-Fi Channel program is the same calendar disk sold in gift shops throughout Yucatan. But I was only half watching, so I may be wrong.

A version of it can be found here: http://www.mysticunicorn.com/graphics/P-5.jpg

-- EJ Albright
Cape Cod, Mass.



----- Original Message ----
From: Elaine Day Schele <eschele at austin.rr.com>
To: Nick Hopkins <nhopkins at mailer.fsu.edu>; Aztlan <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Cc: Ditra Walsh <ditralist at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:04:20 PM
Subject: [Aztlan] Sci Fi Program on Crystal Skulls

Hi Everyone,

I don't know about the disk that the makers of this film displayed, but as I
sat through the entire 2 hours of this program, I was spellbound by so many
of the claims and statements contained in it -- but then I had to keep
reminding myself and my intelligent, but non-mayanist sister, that this
program was after all being aired on the SCI-FI CHANNEL.  The jest of the
program was that there are 12 or 13 (?) crystal skulls that were planted all
over the earth by aliens and that if they were united in one place, the Maya
prediction of 2012 "end of the world" would be averted.  They showed the
skulls in a circle with the "Maya" one in the middle and there was something
that looked like electricity flowing all through them.

It was very entertaining, but they should have had a caption under it saying
"pseudo-science" in addition to their sci-fi logo.  The claims were so
outrageous that even the uninformed would have laughed, but there again was
the idea that the ancient Maya thought that 2012 will be the end of the
world.  No mention of the possibility of starting the calendar over again.

Elaine

-----Original Message-----
From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
On Behalf Of Nick Hopkins
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:26 AM
To: Aztlan
Cc: Ditra Walsh
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] "Maya Calendar" as shown on Sci Fi Program on Crystal
Skulls

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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