[Aztlan] Follow up story on the Maya underground chambers in the Yucatan

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

AP has posted an interesting follow-up story on the extensive  
underground Maya chambers recently uncovered in the Yucatan. It  
includes the reports posted by another listero of the work of  
Gulleromo de Anda in combing through the Spanish Inquisition records  
of torture applied to the Maya to find the secret places of the Maya.  
When de Anda and his team found the secret caves, he saw much  
evidence that this was the place the Maya saw as the road to Xibalba.  
de Anda has found a 100 yard underground road, a submerged tample,  
walled off stone rooms and a submerged altar dedicated to the God of  
Death at a crossroads that leads to the west. There is a room that  
can only be entered by squeezing through sharp stalactites that may  
be the "room of knives" of the Popul Vuh. There is the chamber of  
"roasting heat" and the "chamber of shaking cold," mentioned in the  
Popul Vuh; one of them making you sweat and the other very frigid.

The Las Vegas Sun has the story here;
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/nov/09/scholar-finds-mayans- 
buried-highway-through-hell/

A tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/54rnm2

Mike Ruggeri


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