To commemorate the Mayan Apocalypse, video game tycoon Richard Garriott de Cayeux threw a lavish soiree at his 65-acre spread along Lake Austin, complete with various scenes of imagined end-of-the-world scenarios. -
Sonia Smith in Texas Monthly
posted by jim in austin
on Jan 2, 2013 -
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Master Builder Uncovers Striking Similarities In Indian and Incan / Mayan Sacred Structures:- It is Sthapati's theory that Mayan, the creator of Indian architecture, originated from the Mayan people of Central America. In Indian history, Mayan appears several times, most significantly as the author of Mayamatam, "Concept of Mayan" which is a Vastu Shastra, a text on art, architecture and town planning. The traditional date for this work is 8,000bce. Mayan appears in the Ramayana (2000bce) and again in the Mahabharata (1400bce) - in the latter he designs a magnificent palace for the Pandava brothers. Mayan is also mentioned in Silappathikaram, an ancient Tamil scripture, and is author of Surya Siddhanta, one of the most ancient Hindu treatises on astronomy.
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posted by infini
on Aug 31, 2012 -
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This weekend, TAL
ran an episode on the massacre at
Dos Erres. What they didn't mention was that this happened as part of the "
Silent Holocaust" -- a "systematic campaign of genocide against the Mayan people."
An estimated 83% of the massacred people were indigenous Maya. Throughout the period of the genocide, the USA continued to
provide military support to the Guatemalan government, mainly in the form of arms and equipment, despite knowing that the
Guatemala military was responsible for the killings.
Horatio Castellanos Moya, an exiled Honduran writer, wrote
Senselessness, his first book to be published in English, based on the testimonies taken by the Catholic Church's Recuperation of History project, which led to
Bishop José Gerardi Conedera releasing the
Guatemala: Never Again! report. Two days later, he was bludgeoned to death.
posted by Felicity Rilke
on May 28, 2012 -
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Jon Klassen is an illustrator and designer, with a
blog and a lovely
website full of artwork, including
The Miser (3:53, 2004, made with
Kyle McQueen and Dan Rodrigues),
An Eye for Annai (5:27, 2005,
previously, also made with Dan Rodrigues,
.MOV video link),
an interpretation of
a Mayan folktale (available in full in
Flight vol 4,
previously),
The Adventures of Ship,
a family art project,
visual development and drawings
for sets and props for the movie adaptation of
Coraline (
a couple previous), amongst other bits and bobs. Illustration Mundo had an
interview with Klassen earlier this year.
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 4, 2009 -
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