User talk:Havoctechnoir

Wikipedia WhiteWash -- After reading the Wikipedia version I knew I was looking at liberal reviosionist softsoap. Still hard for a liberal to truly tell it like it is...
Unblieveable commentary. After reading about the Mayans on Wikipedia you'd think they were nice people. How is it liberal media always fails to go--to go to the truth or the functional equivalency of it at least. The Mayans were bloodthirsty savages. Great they had a calendar and thought the world was flat. Junk media online has got ot get better than this to ever be thought of as a "serious resource": Caveat Emptor

Scholars in the mid-20th century mistakenly thought that Mayan society was composed of a priestly class of peaceful stargazers and calendar keepers supported by a devout peasantry. The Maya were thought to be utterly absorbed in their religious and cultural pursuits, in favourable contrast to the more warlike and sanguinary indigenous empires of central Mexico. But the progressive decipherment of nearly all of the Mayan hieroglyphic writing has provided a truer if less elevating picture of Mayan society and culture. Many of the hieroglyphs depict the histories of the Mayan dynastic rulers, who waged war on rival Mayan cities and took their aristocrats captive. These captives were then tortured, mutilated, and sacrificed to the gods. Indeed, torture and human sacrifice were fundamental religious rituals of Mayan society; they were thought to guarantee fertility, demonstrate piety, and propitiate the gods, and, if such practices were neglected, cosmic disorder and chaos were thought to result. The drawing of human blood was thought to nourish the gods and was thus necessary to achieve contact with them; hence, the Mayan rulers, as the intermediaries between the Mayan people and the gods, had to undergo ritual bloodletting and self-torture.*


 * Excerpt from Encyclopedia Britannica Online