THE MAYAN WORLD OF THE CROSS - is the Bible a new age version of the Popul Vuh ?
How did the Maya ever come up with a symbol that is the center of Christian belief? They did this long before, perhaps millennia before, western whiteman appeared on their shores.
Nothing could be more puzzling and enigmatic than the native Crosses of Mesoamerica. How did the Maya ever come up with a symbol that is the center of Christian belief? And make it their own center of religious belief? They did this long before, perhaps millennia before, western white man appeared on their shores. When we tie the Maya Kauil, the tradition of a god who came from heaven and lived as a man, with the Maya Cross, we have the essential core of Christian religious belief.
Except that Mayan religious observances were loaded with an elaborate system of ritual that can only be regarded as pagan.
Countless scholars and laymen have struggled with this riddle.
The panels at Palenque profoundly illustrate the fact of eternal life in the heavens for human mortals who should be fortunate enough to be eligible to enter that blessed land. Unfortunately, you will not find the words eternal life indexed in Maya Cosmos. But you will find the word shaman indexed many times. FSP did not recognize the hope of eternal life in Mayan understanding of the cosmos. They understood only superstitious pagan belief. They may not now call the Mayan perspective of religious reality idolatry, as did the Spaniards, but only because they see the Universe as the result of an evolutionary process without a real living God.
FSP, page 33, believe that the ancient Maya prophets fell into trance states, just as do the modern Maya medicine man. They see all ancient religious devotion as nothing more than the result of shamanistic practices. They state it thus, after sitting in on the performances of Don Pablo, a “doer,” a shaman of his town:
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