Your teaching style is so inspiring. You give Jesus a run for his money as a spiritual teacher. I know it's not in this video but i could feel my heart open up in beautiful sorrowing when you told the story of the Navaho hunter chasing down the doe. Your enthusiasm and compassion and gnosis is so nourishing. Fraser.
Wow! Thank you for these amazing compliments. When I tell and teach these stories it’s all very real for me. What can I say? This stuff gets to me. It matters. That’s why I do it. 🙏🏼
Hello, Peter. Thank you for wonderful interpretation. What was your thesis in this conversation? God is not all-knowing because he made the people he created to pay for his mistakes, he was learning on job, and he created relationship without equality between him and human beings?
Hi Irina, thank you for watching and commenting. Great question. I had to think about it a while, because I try as hard as I can to not have a thesis in my teaching work, but I suppose that's being naive. One's biases and preferences are inescapable. But in my role as a college professor, I believe that my job is to lead students into an inquiry, not present theses and defend them. We study texts and see what they say. That's the extent of it. And one of the key questions that arises from the study of any cosmogony (creation story) is: What is the nature of God? And as I explore in this video, does the Popul Vuh (and Genesis to a lesser extent) present us with an evolving God? In the way I practice philosophy, the question matters more than any one answer or "thesis." All of that being said, however, there is a clear response in the texts themselves to that question, isn't there? Which just leads to the next questions, like Who wrote these texts? What did they know? Is any mythology or "scripture" the definitive word on the nature of Ultimate Reality, or were they all just exploring the questions as we are?
Beautiful narrative. Amazing that the culture evolves completely independent from other continents but the creation story is similar to the Hebrew Bible and other religions. How does that happen ?
Thanks for watching Skuli. You would find the earlier videos in this world mythology series where I address your excellent question from a number of angles quite interesting.
God of Genesis had no problem with having slaves. Abraham and Sara had slaves. How terrible the position of Hagar was.... God ('the Lord') was, to put it boldly, in a way himself a whimsical plantation owner. Jezus wasn't a guy who wants to have slaves. God mirrors the way of living (culture) of the storytellers. So indeed God of the Bible evolves.
The Popol Wuj States that there once was the originalvtext but that no longer exists so the Maya scribes known as the Nim Chokoj Ajaw or Lords of the Recitation of the Ancient Ways, Ancient Words and the Performance of those Words. These Maya Scribes wrote the Popol Wuj down in the latinate or roman form of writing the language known today as K'iche. The Popol Wuj in its original K'iche form is nothingless than divine script or Sacred writing. And this is what is so important for you to teach your students: the Maya were a literate people, the Maya wrote their language out and down on paper made of amate trees, a kind of wild fig. So tge Popol Wuj isn't something a Spaniard wrote down in 1550, no, no, no. The Popol Wuj comes from the deep history of Mesoamerican People and it is tge Sacred Story of Maize told in metaphorical mythic form. So I hope that helps a little bit, I am finishing my translation this fall and I write it for this New Era of the Américas coming to know itself as a reflection of authentic Native America Ways of Being in the World know as tge Sky-Earth where the many deities come together still to order the lives of the K'iche People here in this Place known as K'iche. Way to go Peter for making the Popol Wuj an integral aspect of your study. Maltiox Chawe Tat, Gracias Papaiti Lindo.
Fantastic! TY, Mr Bolland. The Lord brings rain and shine alike. When we realize He/IT/Ein Sof, is working out His OWN Din, through us..we’ll evil isn’t really evil in eyes of the Ein Sof, it’s a means to an end.
I think you and I are using the word "myth" in different ways. I run into this problem all the time. In line of work, the academic study of myth, religion, and philosophy, myths are understood as humanity's deepest and most profound truths, expressed in metaphors, images, and fanciful narratives. If you read myths literally, you not only miss their deeper meanings, you destroy their power.
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Best twenty minutes ever! I'm from Belize and having you retell this so beautifully :') Thank you!
Thank you Joida!
Your teaching style is so inspiring. You give Jesus a run for his money as a spiritual teacher. I know it's not in this video but i could feel my heart open up in beautiful sorrowing when you told the story of the Navaho hunter chasing down the doe. Your enthusiasm and compassion and gnosis is so nourishing. Fraser.
Wow! Thank you for these amazing compliments. When I tell and teach these stories it’s all very real for me. What can I say? This stuff gets to me. It matters. That’s why I do it. 🙏🏼
I am Guatemalan thank you for showing this to me the history of Guatemala
Hi Mayra, thank you so much for watching. I love this story so much!
You are one in a million!! givin rebirth to the Popul Buh!!! Cheers From Central America!!! Guatemala City!!
Thank you Carlos! 🙏🏼
I love your enthusiasm for this story!
What can I say - I love this stuff.
@@PeterBolland It shows 😎🍻
peter I am from central America,thanks for bringing the popol vu to life,is amazing how you explain my holy book
Julio I am honored by your appreciation. I just love this story so much. 🙏🏼
Hello, Peter. Thank you for wonderful interpretation. What was your thesis in this conversation? God is not all-knowing because he made the people he created to pay for his mistakes, he was learning on job, and he created relationship without equality between him and human beings?
Hi Irina, thank you for watching and commenting. Great question. I had to think about it a while, because I try as hard as I can to not have a thesis in my teaching work, but I suppose that's being naive. One's biases and preferences are inescapable. But in my role as a college professor, I believe that my job is to lead students into an inquiry, not present theses and defend them. We study texts and see what they say. That's the extent of it. And one of the key questions that arises from the study of any cosmogony (creation story) is: What is the nature of God? And as I explore in this video, does the Popul Vuh (and Genesis to a lesser extent) present us with an evolving God? In the way I practice philosophy, the question matters more than any one answer or "thesis." All of that being said, however, there is a clear response in the texts themselves to that question, isn't there? Which just leads to the next questions, like Who wrote these texts? What did they know? Is any mythology or "scripture" the definitive word on the nature of Ultimate Reality, or were they all just exploring the questions as we are?
Beautiful narrative. Amazing that the culture evolves completely independent from other continents but the creation story is similar to the Hebrew Bible and other religions. How does that happen ?
Thanks for watching Skuli. You would find the earlier videos in this world mythology series where I address your excellent question from a number of angles quite interesting.
God of Genesis had no problem with having slaves. Abraham and Sara had slaves. How terrible the position of Hagar was.... God ('the Lord') was, to put it boldly, in a way himself a whimsical plantation owner.
Jezus wasn't a guy who wants to have slaves. God mirrors the way of living (culture) of the storytellers. So indeed God of the Bible evolves.
its not a myth its true ...im also finding artifacts from them in georgia
There's no truth to the rumor that the Pope has just issued a critique of Mayan cosmology titled 'Papal View of the Popul Vuh.' 🙂
Not bad...not bad.😃
The Popol Wuj States that there once was the originalvtext but that no longer exists so the Maya scribes known as the Nim Chokoj Ajaw or Lords of the Recitation of the Ancient Ways, Ancient Words and the Performance of those Words. These Maya Scribes wrote the Popol Wuj down in the latinate or roman form of writing the language known today as K'iche. The Popol Wuj in its original K'iche form is nothingless than divine script or Sacred writing. And this is what is so important for you to teach your students: the Maya were a literate people, the Maya wrote their language out and down on paper made of amate trees, a kind of wild fig. So tge Popol Wuj isn't something a Spaniard wrote down in 1550, no, no, no. The Popol Wuj comes from the deep history of Mesoamerican People and it is tge Sacred Story of Maize told in metaphorical mythic form. So I hope that helps a little bit, I am finishing my translation this fall and I write it for this New Era of the Américas coming to know itself as a reflection of authentic Native America Ways of Being in the World know as tge Sky-Earth where the many deities come together still to order the lives of the K'iche People here in this Place known as K'iche. Way to go Peter for making the Popol Wuj an integral aspect of your study. Maltiox Chawe Tat, Gracias Papaiti Lindo.
Guru Jee, thanks!
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Hey, Peter! Well done! Thank you for sharing.
Is that you Frank? Thanks man!
@@PeterBolland Sorry 'bout that. Yes, it is Frank Paiano. Really loved the story.
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this is so cool thank you ! i'm taking mexican history class and i feel like you were able to explain. Thank you !
Thank you Jessica! 🙏🏼
Fantastic! TY, Mr Bolland. The Lord brings rain and shine alike. When we realize He/IT/Ein Sof, is working out His OWN Din, through us..we’ll evil isn’t really evil in eyes of the Ein Sof, it’s a means to an end.
Hi
The Mayan people connection to the popol vuh is the roadmap to thier place in the cosmos and even thier own immortality.
It should be a roadmap for all of us.
@@PeterBolland it can be. If your willing.
It is the TRUTH NOT MYTH
I think you and I are using the word "myth" in different ways. I run into this problem all the time. In line of work, the academic study of myth, religion, and philosophy, myths are understood as humanity's deepest and most profound truths, expressed in metaphors, images, and fanciful narratives. If you read myths literally, you not only miss their deeper meanings, you destroy their power.