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Antropolog
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New York, 1929
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Mayaların Kutsal kitabından alıntı "yaratılış destanı"
Kiçe Mayalarının büyük destanı Popol Vuh'a göre, ata tanrılar Qukumatz ve Tepew, sular arasından yeryüzünü çıkarıp hayvan ve bitkiler ile donattılar. Yaratılıştan sonra bu kutsal varlıklar, dualarla anılmak ve yüceltilmek isteğiyle çamurdan insanımsı yaratıklar yaptılar ancak bunlar çamura dönüştüler. Ardından bir ahşap figürler nesli belirdi, ancak tanrılar bu akılsız cüceleri yok etti, onların yerini etten yapılmış insanlar aldı. Ancak bunlarda kötülüğe dönüştüler ve kara yağmurlar yağıp yeryüzünü büyük bir sel basınca yok oldular. En sonunda mısır hamurundan gerçek insanlar, Kiçelerin ataları yaratıldı.
Sayfa 41 - arkadaş yayınlarıKitabı yarım bıraktı
The Maya are hardly a vanished people, for they number around five million souls, the largest single block of American Indians north of Peru. Most have adjusted with remarkable tenacity to the encroachments of Spanish American civilization, although over the past few decades these have taken an increasingly violent and repressive form, characterized of late by drug trafficking, displacement, migration abroad, and, in places, gang activity.
Amerikan yerlileri teknolojide neden bu kadar geriydi?
It might also be reasonably asked why it took so long for the Mexicans to cross the threshold to village-farming life. In the Old World this event first occurred, along the hilly flanks of Mesopotamia, as early as the tenth millennium before Christ, not very much later than the first experimentation with plant and animal domestication. In Mexico, where the American Indian originally took this step, the process of domestication took at least three millennia.
A handicap of this kind is the real reason why sixteenth-century Mexico was the technological inferior of Europe, for once past the frontier into peasant life, ancient Mexican culture unfolded at the same rate as did that of the Old World. Given this late start, the civilization that Cortés destroyed should be compared not to Renaissance Europe, but to the Bronze Age of the Near East and China.
Several breeds of dog were domesticated by the Maya, each with its own name. One such strain was barkless; males were castrated and fattened on corn, and either eaten or sacrificed. Another was used in the hunt. Both wild and domestic turkeys were known, but only the former used as sacrificial victims in ceremonies.
And they called it Teotihuacan
because it was the place
where the lords were buried.
Thus they said:
“When we die, truly we die not,
because we will live, we will rise,
we will continue living, we will awaken.
This will make us happy.”
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