With the further investigation of Mayan culture, people are surprised to find that the Mayans thousands of years ago had unparalleled mathematical attainments and unique enigmatic characters. Besides, Chyi Chin? The giant buildings in Ithaca, Tikal, palenque and other places were built in strict accordance with the magical Mayan calendar cycle, not to meet the needs of Maya's real life.
How accurate is the Mayan calendar and astronomical knowledge? They divide a year into 18 months, and their calculated earth year is 365.2420 days. Compared with the 365.2422 days calculated by modern people, the error is only 0.0002 days, that is to say, the error of a month in 2000 is only one day. They calculated that the year of Venus is 584 days, which is only 7 seconds away from the 50 years of modern people. What an incredible number this is! How did the Mayans thousands of years ago have such an accurate calculation? They still maintain a special religious chronology, with a year divided into 13 months and 20 days each month, which is called "Zorkin Year". Where this calendar came from is really puzzling.
Because this chronology is not based on the movement of any celestial body observed on the earth. Some people think that the calendar of "Zorkin Year" was made by the ancestors of Maya on the basis of another planet that we don't know yet.
The Mayans mastered the concept of "0" at least in the 4th century BC, 800 years before China and Europe to 1000. They also created a 20-digit counting method, and their numerical calculus can be used in 4 million years. Such a huge astronomical figure can only be used for modern interstellar travel and measuring the distance between stars. Thousands of years ago, the Mayans slash and burn, covered their bodies with leaves and exchanged things with cocoa beans as the medium. Do they need such numerical calculations?
The Mayan calendar can last 400 million years, and the difference between the solar year and the Venus year he calculated can be accurate to four decimal places. They have their own characters, which are hieroglyphics composed of 800 symbols and figures, and their vocabulary is as high as 30 thousand. They have exquisite carving, painting and bronze art. However, before the peak of this high civilization was born, the Mayans lived in tree holes and collected for a living. How did such a primitive tribe suddenly produce such a high civilization? Even in the16th century, the Indians seen by the Spanish on the Yucatan Peninsula full of historical sites still lived in mud houses with leaves and made a living by gathering and hunting. Obviously, the precise astronomical calendar and mathematics, the civilization and art admired all over the world, far exceeded the actual needs of the almost primitive life of the local Indian indigenous people.
This makes anyone have to have a profound: how did the ancient Maya get that profound knowledge? How did the splendid Mayan culture come into being and then disappear? 1On June 5th, 952, a stone tablet engraved with numbers and patterns was excavated from the ruins of a temple in palenque, an ancient Mayan city on the Mexican plateau. At that time, people only regarded this as a sculpture of ancient Mayan mythology. But in the 1960s, after people went into space by spaceship, American scientists who participated in space research suddenly realized that what was carved on the slate of palenque was a picture of an astronaut driving a spaceship! Although it has undergone patterned deformation, the air inlet, exhaust pipe, joystick, pedal, rudder, antenna, hose and various instruments of the spacecraft are still clearly visible. When this photo was sent to the American Space Center, the space experts were amazed and agreed that it was an ancient spaceship. It seems unbelievable, but it is a certain fact.
Therefore, some scholars have put forward a bold view: in remote ancient times, there may have been a group of intelligent and highly civilized aliens in the tropical jungle of America. They walked out of the spaceship, taught all kinds of advanced knowledge to the Maya in primitive times, and then drifted away. They were turned into gods by the Mayans. The profound knowledge that is difficult to understand in Mayan culture was taught by aliens. The carving on the slate in palenque is also a copy of the alien astronauts by the Mayans. When the aliens left, they promised the Mayans to return to the earth, but they didn't come back in the days when the Mayans chased them and the priests predicted the return of the gods. Therefore, this led to the loss of the Maya's confidence in their religion and priestly rule, which led to the collapse of the entire national psychology, and finally made people leave their hometowns one after another and separate. Maya culture just disappeared.
Distant brothers or alien descendants?
1839, American John? Stephens first discovered the remains of ancient Mayan civilization in the tropical jungle of Honduras. Since then, with the deepening of the work of archaeologists in various countries, Mayan civilization has shocked the world again and again.
100 Mayan cultural relics will be exhibited in Shanghai Museum. Two conjectures about Maya: the "Homology Theory" that Maya and China lived in the same family and the "Alien Theory" that Maya were descended from aliens have once again become controversial topics. However, this exhibition can only provide some clues for the theory of homology, while the theory of aliens is still a research topic for professionals. The design on the Mayan sarcophagus is very similar to that of today's space rocket.
These exhibits show the audience the brilliant records created by the Mayans:
The earliest man who planted corn (corn idol incense burner)
Corn is the most precious crop for Indians. In order to prevent it from being hurt, the Mayans created the corn god.
The earliest use of "0"
Maya is the first nation to invent and use "0", and digital writing is unique.
The most accurate calendar in ancient times
The year of the earth calculated by the Mayans is 365.2420 days, which is only 0.0002 days compared with modern people, that is, the error of 5000 years is only one day.
The most complicated and beautiful hieroglyphics
The development level of Mayan hieroglyphics is similar to that of China, but the symbol combination is far more complicated than Chinese characters, so far no one has found a breakthrough in interpretation.
The most interesting ceramic sculpture on display (fruit vendor)
Maya pottery figurines mostly represent nobles, but there are also ordinary people. The sitting person looks like a fruit bowl between his legs, with one hand close to his mouth, as if shouting. He may be selling fruit. Such interesting works are rare in ordinary ancient civilizations. Homologous theory is a common view of Chinese and Mexican scholars. In ancient times, the Bering Strait was still covered by land, and some Asians reached America through the Bering Strait, creating a Mayan civilization comparable to Asian civilization. Experts from Shanghai Museum pointed out some clues about the "homologous" relationship between Maya and Chinese civilization from the cultural relics to be exhibited in Shanghai, which is also the biggest attraction of this exhibition.
Art: (Pocket Football Color Pot) The milk-like pocket feet and exaggerated colors on this pot make this vessel have a special attraction, and the contrasting red and black geometric patterns are very eye-catching. Chest-shaped foot is the most distinctive form of prehistoric pottery in China, but it can also be seen in the pottery of many American Indians.
Material selection: (Necklace with breastplate) There are many jade articles in the Mayan cultural relics that came to Shanghai this time. Only the Mayans in China and the United States cherished jade and developed jade carving skills to a higher level. More coincidentally, both of these two ethnic groups have the belief that jade is associated with life and reproduction, and some Mayan jade articles are strikingly similar to those of Liangzhu culture, a prehistoric culture in the south of the Yangtze River.
Race: (Thinking Face) This kind of frowning, slightly sad, philosophical and calm thinking face, like "I think therefore I am", has appeared many times in Mayan art. From the ethnographic point of view, both Maya and China people have obvious unique characteristics of Mongolian race. Studies have proved that the palmprint lines of Maya and China people are very similar.
Belief: The image of the feather god in Mayan culture is somewhat similar to the cow's head and antlers invented by China, the scales of snakes, Tiger Claw beard and dragons that can walk on clouds. The feathered snake head on Mayan murals and the carving of the snake head on the double-headed stick held by Mayan priests are also close to the shape of the faucet. In addition, the worship of Quetzalcoatl and Dragon is related to praying for rain. Up to now, nearly 2 million Mayans still live in the land of their ancestors. Although they inherited some customs and habits of their ancestors, under the great impact of modern civilization, they knew little about their own history and culture, and the glory that the Mayans once had came to an abrupt end.