[Aztlan] Water Over the Earth

[Barb MacLeod]

Hi, Elaine,

Indeed, this paper by Erik Velasquez Garcia is excellent, and I should have mentioned it as well, but was headed out the door to the airport. It's well worth further thought, particularly as John Hoopes has raised the question of whether *any* post-contact sources referrring to a flood, including Landa, are untainted with Christian doctrine. 

Velasquez-Garcia's paper makes the best case thus far for a pre-contact Maya flood/destruction belief, so perhaps we can have a fruitful conversation about his ideas. 

My contributions to the discussion are more likely to be linguistic and epigraphic.

Barb MacLeod


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Also, it might be helpful to look at Erik Valazquez Garcia's "The Maya
Flood Myth and the Decapitation of the Cosmic Caiman" found at the
Mesoweb website:
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/journal/701/flood_e.pdf,
where he discusses the Temple XIX passage that Barb references, as
well as other passages that discuss floods and the flow of blood.

Elaine Schele
PhD Candidate
University of Texas
http://gispalenque.blogspot.com/
http://volunteermayameetings.blogspot.com/