I know you meant your comments to praise the artist's work & that of the peoples u mentioned, but those peoples are not gone. Descendants of the ancient Olmec still live in Mexico, just as the Maya continue to live in their ancient homelands. And hundreds of ancient peoples continue to live throughout the Americas, as elsewhere. And although the Maya in past centuries developed very advanced & complex concepts re: time, their descendants still live according to many such ancient concepts. The concept of space-time was (as far as we now know) developed by the Olmec (c. 1700-300B.C.E), along with what is known as the sacred calendar, & these were then perfected by the Maya, who if not directly descended from the Olmec were at least among the Olmec's cultural heirs. While the ancient Maya were able to calculate time more accurately than any other known people (their measurement of linear time was far more accurate than any western system, equaled only by computer-aided calculation in the later 20th c), it is their concept of space-time that is really amazing. This concept of space-time wasn't limited to the Maya but rather was shared by a great many pre-Columbian peoples from the earliest known times. And this concept is still a basis of many native peoples today. It is a radically different view of the world than is found in 'old world' cultures. Although the native concept of space-time is in many ways similar to the concept developed by Einstein (& later scientists), it's much too complex to even try to explain here (not that I'm able to explain it so well). But the basic concept of this space-time can still be seen in much current writings by native authors from the non-fiction works by Vine Deloria, Jr, to the fiction writings of Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Scott Momaday, LeAnne Howe, & many others. Although perhaps I'm misinterpreting your references to stargates, etc, I'm afraid you're referring to the idea that ancient Maya & other civilizations were influenced or founded by beings from other planets. Although it's always possible that 'aliens' influenced ancient peoples on earth, there is no evidence of this & the idea is at bottom a rather racist one. It suggests that these peoples weren't capable of such accomplishments on their own. If you notice, it has been only the non-European peoples of the ancient world who have been selected as subjects for such books as 'Chariots of the Gods'. To my knowledge, such authors have not claimed that the ancient Greeks had help from aliens from outer space. But since the start of Eur. conquest & colonization of the Americas, there has been a long line of non-native authors who refused to believe that the ancestors of modern Indians were capable of building the ancient structures found throughout the Americas such as the pyramids in Mesoamerica, the great ceremonial centers in the present-day U.S. such as Etowah & Spiro, etc. The authors in the later 20th into the 21st c. who proposed that space aliens 'helped' the ancient Maya & others-- this is nothing new. Credit for such creations has been given to non-native peoples since the first Europeans arrived & found such marvels. Prior to the 20th c, credit was given to many different peoples--- it was long claimed, for example, that the native peoples who were considered more civilized were actually lost tribes of Israel. Yes, really. The Maya, the Cherokee, the Muscogean peoples, & others the Euro-Americans considdred more civilized were claimed to be descended from the lost tribes of Israel. Scientists of the 18th & 19th c. often made this claim. Why? Because native peoples were considered barely human & certainly incapable of such advanced thought or ability. This line of Eurocentric thought continued through the 20th c into the present. Try reading Vine Deloria's work, especially 'Red Earth/White Lies', which is a critique of western science.
Beautiful art. She has the spirit of the Mayans/olmec and the Egyptians who built the great pyramids. They were the keepers of time and the stargates!
I know you meant your comments to praise the artist's work & that of the peoples u mentioned, but those peoples are not gone. Descendants of the ancient Olmec still live in Mexico, just as the Maya continue to live in their ancient homelands. And hundreds of ancient peoples continue to live throughout the Americas, as elsewhere.
And although the Maya in past centuries developed very advanced & complex concepts re: time, their descendants still live according to many such ancient concepts. The concept of space-time was (as far as we now know) developed by the Olmec (c. 1700-300B.C.E), along with what is known as the sacred calendar, & these were then perfected by the Maya, who if not directly descended from the Olmec were at least among the Olmec's cultural heirs. While the ancient Maya were able to calculate time more accurately than any other known people (their measurement of linear time was far more accurate than any western system, equaled only by computer-aided calculation in the later 20th c), it is their concept of space-time that is really amazing. This concept of space-time wasn't limited to the Maya but rather was shared by a great many pre-Columbian peoples from the earliest known times. And this concept is still a basis of many native peoples today. It is a radically different view of the world than is found in 'old world' cultures.
Although the native concept of space-time is in many ways similar to the concept developed by Einstein (& later scientists), it's much too complex to even try to explain here (not that I'm able to explain it so well). But the basic concept of this space-time can still be seen in much current writings by native authors from the non-fiction works by Vine Deloria, Jr, to the fiction writings of Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Scott Momaday, LeAnne Howe, & many others.
Although perhaps I'm misinterpreting your references to stargates, etc, I'm afraid you're referring to the idea that ancient Maya & other civilizations were influenced or founded by beings from other planets. Although it's always possible that 'aliens' influenced ancient peoples on earth, there is no evidence of this & the idea is at bottom a rather racist one. It suggests that these peoples weren't capable of such accomplishments on their own. If you notice, it has been only the non-European peoples of the ancient world who have been selected as subjects for such books as 'Chariots of the Gods'. To my knowledge, such authors have not claimed that the ancient Greeks had help from aliens from outer space. But since the start of Eur. conquest & colonization of the Americas, there has been a long line of non-native authors who refused to believe that the ancestors of modern Indians were capable of building the ancient structures found throughout the Americas such as the pyramids in Mesoamerica, the great ceremonial centers in the present-day U.S. such as Etowah & Spiro, etc. The authors in the later 20th into the 21st c. who proposed that space aliens 'helped' the ancient Maya & others-- this is nothing new. Credit for such creations has been given to non-native peoples since the first Europeans arrived & found such marvels. Prior to the 20th c, credit was given to many different peoples--- it was long claimed, for example, that the native peoples who were considered more civilized were actually lost tribes of Israel. Yes, really. The Maya, the Cherokee, the Muscogean peoples, & others the Euro-Americans considdred more civilized were claimed to be descended from the lost tribes of Israel. Scientists of the 18th & 19th c. often made this claim. Why? Because native peoples were considered barely human & certainly incapable of such advanced thought or ability.
This line of Eurocentric thought continued through the 20th c into the present. Try reading Vine Deloria's work, especially 'Red Earth/White Lies', which is a critique of western science.