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27 SEPTEMBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO AND OSCAR VOTERS
In Hollywood, meanwhile, industry observers were beginning to confront a new problem: If Mr. Gibson's film proves to be of awards quality, should those who bestow the honors, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives the Oscars, overlook his behavior in favor of his art? An early look at the movie - which is scheduled for release by Disney on Dec. 8 - shows it to have at least some of the earmarks of an Oscar picture, including epic sweep and considerable ambition. …………………………………………………………. Even if that story connects with the audience, Oscar voters may find it hard to reward someone who has been effectively banished from a large segment of Hollywood. "Historically, there have been events and situations where Hollywood individually and collectively has had a short memory," said Steve Tisch, a producer and a member of the academy. "Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds. These wounds are much deeper, and I don't think Hollywood academy members are going to overlook how deeply some of his comments hurt." William Mechanic, another producer and academy member, said he did not believe Mr. Gibson or his representatives could in any way court votes. "I don't think you can mount a campaign - that would be a mistake," Mr. Mechanic said. "If you're looking to curry favor with the academy, that would be a mistake." Yet another producer and academy member, Marykay Powell, noted that academy voters have historically focused on art, not the artist. "I'm able to distinguish art," Ms. Powell said. "I certainly would take a look at the work." Mr. Gibson's ace-in-the-hole when it comes the prize season may be his celebrity, or even notoriety, which might help some awards shows draw viewers. Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the Golden Globes, said he did not believe any of Mr. Gibson's remarks would hurt with his group. "The award is based on the evaluation of the film, not on remarks that may have offended some people," he said. Joey Berlin, president of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, similarly said his group would be happy to consider "Apocalypto." "I can't imagine this would be a serious stumbling block for him," said Mr. Berlin, whose group sponsors a televised awards show. |
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28 SEPTEMBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO, MORE REVIEWS
"MEL GIBSON AND RUDY YOUNGBLOOD IN AUSTIN"
We´ve eliminated some information concerning the plot of the film.
Review, www.twichfilm.net.
The good: Even in its work print stage, it looks beautiful, with excellent production values. It's the most sumptuous National Geographic Special I've ever seen, faithfully recreating the Mayan civilization in 1502…………………..
Also on the good side of the ledger, Gibson wisely used non-professionals and drew good performances out of nearly all of them. The action scenes are properly pulse-pounding, even before final editing. A number of scenes are incredibly effective……..
"DIRECTOR AND STAR"
The bad: In the post-screening Q & A, Gibson made it clear that he intended to draw parallels between the Mayan Civilization and our modern-day civilization. Obviously, I agree that history teaches valuable lessons (as in Santayana, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it"). Who doesn't? But here, the viewer is left to supply all the context and draw all the conclusions.
He also makes the peaceful forest tribe entirely good and the brutual "civilized" tribe entirely evil. There's such a contrast, a bald desire to pit good vs. evil, that it simplifies the downfall of a civilization rather than provide much enlightenment.
MY CONCLUSION: Taken as an action-adventure flick, it provides a different angle to a familiar story. I was never tempted to doze off. Trying to make it more "important" that that will be a tough sell for many audiences.
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"MEL GIBSON AND RUDY YOUNGBLOOD IN AUSTIN"
We´ve eliminated some information concerning the plot of the film.
Review, www.twichfilm.net.
The good: Even in its work print stage, it looks beautiful, with excellent production values. It's the most sumptuous National Geographic Special I've ever seen, faithfully recreating the Mayan civilization in 1502…………………..
Also on the good side of the ledger, Gibson wisely used non-professionals and drew good performances out of nearly all of them. The action scenes are properly pulse-pounding, even before final editing. A number of scenes are incredibly effective……..
"DIRECTOR AND STAR"
The bad: In the post-screening Q & A, Gibson made it clear that he intended to draw parallels between the Mayan Civilization and our modern-day civilization. Obviously, I agree that history teaches valuable lessons (as in Santayana, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it"). Who doesn't? But here, the viewer is left to supply all the context and draw all the conclusions.
He also makes the peaceful forest tribe entirely good and the brutual "civilized" tribe entirely evil. There's such a contrast, a bald desire to pit good vs. evil, that it simplifies the downfall of a civilization rather than provide much enlightenment.
MY CONCLUSION: Taken as an action-adventure flick, it provides a different angle to a familiar story. I was never tempted to doze off. Trying to make it more "important" that that will be a tough sell for many audiences.
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"DIRECTOR AND STAR"
The bad: In the post-screening Q & A, Gibson made it clear that he intended to draw parallels between the Mayan Civilization and our modern-day civilization. Obviously, I agree that history teaches valuable lessons (as in Santayana, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it"). Who doesn't? But here, the viewer is left to supply all the context and draw all the conclusions.
He also makes the peaceful forest tribe entirely good and the brutual "civilized" tribe entirely evil. There's such a contrast, a bald desire to pit good vs. evil, that it simplifies the downfall of a civilization rather than provide much enlightenment.
MY CONCLUSION: Taken as an action-adventure flick, it provides a different angle to a familiar story. I was never tempted to doze off. Trying to make it more "important" that that will be a tough sell for many audiences.
28 SEPTEMBER 2006.- FOR Mr. FINK
"Mel's Anti-War Statements Don't Go Far", ABC.com
At a screening of "Apocalypto," Friday at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Gibson criticized the war in Iraq, and compared the collapsing Mayan civilization depicted in the movie to the United States.
"What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?" he told the audience, according to the Associated Press.
Gibson's statements could be seen as a move to mollify anti-war sentiments in Hollywood, according to Phil Fink, host of the "Shalom America" radio show.
"This guy clearly has to win back the people in Hollywood that he's lost," says Fink.
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FEBRUARY 2005.- MEL GIBSON AND IRAK WAR
"I feel a strange kinship with Michael (Moore). They're trying to pit us against each other in the press, but it's a hologram. They really have got nothing to do with one another. It's just some kind of device, some left-right. He makes some salient points. There was some very expert, elliptical editing going on. HOWEVER, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING IN IRAK? NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN TO ME IN A REASONABLE MANNER THAT I CAN ACCEPT WHY WE´RE THERE, WHY WE WENT THERE, AND WHY WE´RE STILL THERE." Mel Gibson
At a screening of "Apocalypto," Friday at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Gibson criticized the war in Iraq, and compared the collapsing Mayan civilization depicted in the movie to the United States.
"What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?" he told the audience, according to the Associated Press.
Gibson's statements could be seen as a move to mollify anti-war sentiments in Hollywood, according to Phil Fink, host of the "Shalom America" radio show.
"This guy clearly has to win back the people in Hollywood that he's lost," says Fink.
FEBRUARY 2005.- MEL GIBSON AND IRAK WAR
"I feel a strange kinship with Michael (Moore). They're trying to pit us against each other in the press, but it's a hologram. They really have got nothing to do with one another. It's just some kind of device, some left-right. He makes some salient points. There was some very expert, elliptical editing going on. HOWEVER, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING IN IRAK? NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN TO ME IN A REASONABLE MANNER THAT I CAN ACCEPT WHY WE´RE THERE, WHY WE WENT THERE, AND WHY WE´RE STILL THERE." Mel Gibson
29 SEPTEMBER 2006.- MEL MIGHT VISIT MEXICO NEXT NOVEMBER
Mel Gibson might attend "Exposer 2006" that will take place next November (from 24 to 26) in Cancun Center (Mexico).
There has still been no official confirmation of Mr.Gibson´s assistance.
Marilu Figueroa, in charge of the event, has said that Mel Gibson´s plan is to give a talk on his film, APOCALYPTO.
"Exposer 2006" is a very important humanistic meeting that focus on physical, spiritual and mental health.
There has still been no official confirmation of Mr.Gibson´s assistance.
Marilu Figueroa, in charge of the event, has said that Mel Gibson´s plan is to give a talk on his film, APOCALYPTO.
"Exposer 2006" is a very important humanistic meeting that focus on physical, spiritual and mental health.
29 SEPTEMBER 2006.- PLEASE, REMEMBER THIS
I found this story on the Internet about Mel Gibson. I thought you
might want to publish it. So here it is
Regards, Angelina
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"Ireland / Braveheart. - 11 weeks ago
I went to Ireland for the first time in 1995. A woman I knew invited me to be a counselor there. Sent me a ticket and an invitation to a place called the Barretstown Gang Camp. It is now called Barretstown and an amazing place for children from all over Europe fighting chronic illness.
http://www.barretstowngc.ie/
While there, I heard a story from my new friends about the previous
summer when Mel Gibson and crew were filming Braveheart. He stopped by one day to visit the kids. He and his bunch of tough looking warriors came in with all their swords and garb, and sang their songs to the kids.
When it was all over, one camper, not to be outdone, climbed up on a
table and lead the campers and counselors in camp song back to Mel and crew!
Not a dry eye amongst those tough guys is the rumor, and at the end of the session Mel took his sword, from the movie, and gave it to her. She was very happy needless to say.
Funny thing, the prop guy followed up and tried to take the sword back, but the girl wouldn't have it! Mel gave it to her, she was going to keep it!
So, that is why I want to meet Mel Gibson to say thank you for caring
enough to take time away from his work to visit the kids, and to say thank you for making one of my top three movies!
God Bless Ireland, and God Bless Mel Gibson.
LM
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Regards, Angelina
"Ireland / Braveheart. - 11 weeks ago
I went to Ireland for the first time in 1995. A woman I knew invited me to be a counselor there. Sent me a ticket and an invitation to a place called the Barretstown Gang Camp. It is now called Barretstown and an amazing place for children from all over Europe fighting chronic illness.
http://www.barretstowngc.ie/
While there, I heard a story from my new friends about the previous summer when Mel Gibson and crew were filming Braveheart. He stopped by one day to visit the kids. He and his bunch of tough looking warriors came in with all their swords and garb, and sang their songs to the kids.
When it was all over, one camper, not to be outdone, climbed up on a table and lead the campers and counselors in camp song back to Mel and crew!
Not a dry eye amongst those tough guys is the rumor, and at the end of the session Mel took his sword, from the movie, and gave it to her. She was very happy needless to say.
Funny thing, the prop guy followed up and tried to take the sword back, but the girl wouldn't have it! Mel gave it to her, she was going to keep it!
So, that is why I want to meet Mel Gibson to say thank you for caring enough to take time away from his work to visit the kids, and to say thank you for making one of my top three movies!
God Bless Ireland, and God Bless Mel Gibson.
LM
29 SEPTEMBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO AND THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS (NEW MEXICO)
According to The New Mexican, Mel Gibson's camp is upset the Institute of American Indian Arts blamed it for last weekend's 11th-hour cancellation of a showing of his new film, Apocalypto, in the school's auditorium.
And now IAIA students are upset because they didn't learn about the offer for them to see an advanced screening.
Jhayne Myers, who owns the company that is handling publicity for the movie, said Thursday that she was stunned by statements from Susan Crow, IAIA's director for institutional advancement, in a Tuesday article in The New Mexican.
Crow said Gibson's publicist gave the school 24 hours' notice to agree to a screening, and the school didn't have enough time to organize the event. But Myers said she had confirmation for a Saturday screening in a Sept. 18 e-mail from Beverly Morris, IAIA's Summer Television and Film Workshop director.
"I thought I was offering a unique opportunity to the students of IAIA but was told directly by (Crow) that the experience is not unique since they often have (American Indian actor) Wes Studi visit the school," Myers said. "I was also told by Ms. Crow that the subject matter of human sacrifice in the film may not be appropriate for Native students at the school. This screening was shown to predominantly Native audiences, and I am proud to say no one has been offended."
But Crow on Thursday said she doesn't want to get into a back-and-forth about the cancellation. "I have not spoken to (Myers) in the last couple of days, but the message has always been consistent - we wanted to have enough time to put together an educational program," she said.
"We still want this to happen, the screening, and the students still want this to happen," she added.
She also said the human-sacrifice scenes had nothing to do with the school's decision.
The film, about the Mayan culture's decline, was scheduled for a five-stop screening tour for American Indian audiences in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, Myers said
Apparently students learned about the canceled screening in The New Mexican, and they have decided to write a community letter to Gibson's camp to ask if he could come back
But Myers said Gibson is in Mexico doing post-production work on the film and would not be able to attend a screening here.
Myers had arranged with Morris a check list of equipment that would be needed for the screening, and everything was arranged and going according to plan, she said. She added that she had already arranged lodging for Gibson's people at La Fonda. A question-and-answer session with students had been planned for after the screening, she said.
And now IAIA students are upset because they didn't learn about the offer for them to see an advanced screening.
Jhayne Myers, who owns the company that is handling publicity for the movie, said Thursday that she was stunned by statements from Susan Crow, IAIA's director for institutional advancement, in a Tuesday article in The New Mexican.
Crow said Gibson's publicist gave the school 24 hours' notice to agree to a screening, and the school didn't have enough time to organize the event. But Myers said she had confirmation for a Saturday screening in a Sept. 18 e-mail from Beverly Morris, IAIA's Summer Television and Film Workshop director.
"I thought I was offering a unique opportunity to the students of IAIA but was told directly by (Crow) that the experience is not unique since they often have (American Indian actor) Wes Studi visit the school," Myers said. "I was also told by Ms. Crow that the subject matter of human sacrifice in the film may not be appropriate for Native students at the school. This screening was shown to predominantly Native audiences, and I am proud to say no one has been offended."
But Crow on Thursday said she doesn't want to get into a back-and-forth about the cancellation. "I have not spoken to (Myers) in the last couple of days, but the message has always been consistent - we wanted to have enough time to put together an educational program," she said.
"We still want this to happen, the screening, and the students still want this to happen," she added.
She also said the human-sacrifice scenes had nothing to do with the school's decision.
The film, about the Mayan culture's decline, was scheduled for a five-stop screening tour for American Indian audiences in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, Myers said
Apparently students learned about the canceled screening in The New Mexican, and they have decided to write a community letter to Gibson's camp to ask if he could come back
But Myers said Gibson is in Mexico doing post-production work on the film and would not be able to attend a screening here.
Myers had arranged with Morris a check list of equipment that would be needed for the screening, and everything was arranged and going according to plan, she said. She added that she had already arranged lodging for Gibson's people at La Fonda. A question-and-answer session with students had been planned for after the screening, she said.
1 OCTOBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO AND "MYSTERY OF THE MAYA"
"MEL GIBSON, SHOOTING APOCALYPTO"
"Mystery of the Maya", Orlando Sentinel
Secrets of an ancient civilization will be revealed to those who visit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
COBA, Mexico -- This winter, Yucatan's mysterious Maya will be invading theaters near you, courtesy of Mel Gibson's epic Apocalypto.
In all likelihood, the release will inspire many Americans to return the favor, visiting sites such as this ruined city in Mexico, as well as others in Guatemala and Honduras. And for the hurricane-battered Yucatan peninsula, between the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, a movie-motivated influx couldn't come at a better time.
Just as Gibson is wrapping up filming across the Gulf in the jungles of Veracruz, Mexico, I am staggering up the endless stone steps of El Castillo, which the Maya call Nohoch Muul.
This visit to Coba, whose name means "water stirred by wind," is my third in 20 years of annual trips to Yucatan. And it is part of an eco-tourism excursion called "Mayan Encounter" that lives up to its name
I can understand Gibson's choice of the ancient Maya as a subject for his $50 million film, currently set for a Dec. 8 release by Disney's Touchstone Pictures. This was a pre-Columbian civilization, a complex society that managed to build monumental stone cities, develop a sophisticated astronomical calendar, imagine the mathematical concept of zero and build an extensive network of paved footpaths. They did all of this without metal, beasts of burden, the wheel or the keystone arch. And then, inexplicably, they abandoned their cities and moved to jungle villages such as this one to live on subsistence farming.
Gibson's film, in which characters speak Yucatec Mayan, is set at the time of this collapse, probably because of war and famine, around the year 1000. The movie could do for this century's travelers what American adventurer John Lloyd Stephens, and his artist, Englishman Frederic Catherwood, did in their best-selling 19th-century books.
For those who wish to imagine themselves in Apocalypto, Coba offers the opportunity to see restored and reconstructed ruins, as they were around the time Gibson's film is set, as well as partially covered remains still in the wild, as Stephens and Catherwood found them in the 1840s.
If, after seeing Apocalypto, you plan to visit the Maya ruins, another author suggests you make your plans soon, before the next apocalypse. Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, in his new book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, suggests that, according to the Maya cosmology, world upheaval might be on the horizon.
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The Mayan Encounter's day trip is low-impact "eco-tourism lite." But it provides an opportunity to experience all of these aspects of Yucatan -- the history and the mystery, the nature and the adventure. And, in the process, maybe make life a little better for the Maya.
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"MEL GIBSON, SHOOTING APOCALYPTO"
Secrets of an ancient civilization will be revealed to those who visit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
COBA, Mexico -- This winter, Yucatan's mysterious Maya will be invading theaters near you, courtesy of Mel Gibson's epic Apocalypto.
In all likelihood, the release will inspire many Americans to return the favor, visiting sites such as this ruined city in Mexico, as well as others in Guatemala and Honduras. And for the hurricane-battered Yucatan peninsula, between the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, a movie-motivated influx couldn't come at a better time.
Just as Gibson is wrapping up filming across the Gulf in the jungles of Veracruz, Mexico, I am staggering up the endless stone steps of El Castillo, which the Maya call Nohoch Muul.
This visit to Coba, whose name means "water stirred by wind," is my third in 20 years of annual trips to Yucatan. And it is part of an eco-tourism excursion called "Mayan Encounter" that lives up to its name
I can understand Gibson's choice of the ancient Maya as a subject for his $50 million film, currently set for a Dec. 8 release by Disney's Touchstone Pictures. This was a pre-Columbian civilization, a complex society that managed to build monumental stone cities, develop a sophisticated astronomical calendar, imagine the mathematical concept of zero and build an extensive network of paved footpaths. They did all of this without metal, beasts of burden, the wheel or the keystone arch. And then, inexplicably, they abandoned their cities and moved to jungle villages such as this one to live on subsistence farming.
Gibson's film, in which characters speak Yucatec Mayan, is set at the time of this collapse, probably because of war and famine, around the year 1000. The movie could do for this century's travelers what American adventurer John Lloyd Stephens, and his artist, Englishman Frederic Catherwood, did in their best-selling 19th-century books.
For those who wish to imagine themselves in Apocalypto, Coba offers the opportunity to see restored and reconstructed ruins, as they were around the time Gibson's film is set, as well as partially covered remains still in the wild, as Stephens and Catherwood found them in the 1840s.
If, after seeing Apocalypto, you plan to visit the Maya ruins, another author suggests you make your plans soon, before the next apocalypse. Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, in his new book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, suggests that, according to the Maya cosmology, world upheaval might be on the horizon.
The Mayan Encounter's day trip is low-impact "eco-tourism lite." But it provides an opportunity to experience all of these aspects of Yucatan -- the history and the mystery, the nature and the adventure. And, in the process, maybe make life a little better for the Maya.
3 OCTOBER 2006.- BRADBURY KNOWS THE ANSWERS
Mel Gibson loves "Fahrenheit 451". He wanted to make a new film version of Bradbury´s best-seller, which he would direct, but the project got off to a slow development start. By 2001, intermittently in development, it was still on hold. So what did it happen? Why was the project cancelled? Ray Brabury knows the answers…
Q: Didn't actor-director Mel Gibson buy the rights to "Fahrenheit 451" for a remake of the movie?
A: Yes, but he's got 16 different writers who have written 16 scripts. That's ridiculous! You don't need 16 scripts! What you do is shoot the book.
All of my writing is cinematic. Films are part of my blood. You can pick up any of my books and shoot them -- the scripts are right there.
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" began as a screenplay for Gene Kelly because I loved his films. He didn't do my screenplay, so I wrote it into a novel, which you can shoot right off the page.
Everyone complicates things. Universal bought the rights to "The Martian Chronicles" to do a new version of it. But there are 17 scripts of that, including five by me. They don't think I can write, you see. They've let eight years go by since our Mars landing. So if we don't hurry up, we'll be going off to Mars again before the damn film gets made.
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Q: Didn't actor-director Mel Gibson buy the rights to "Fahrenheit 451" for a remake of the movie?
A: Yes, but he's got 16 different writers who have written 16 scripts. That's ridiculous! You don't need 16 scripts! What you do is shoot the book.
All of my writing is cinematic. Films are part of my blood. You can pick up any of my books and shoot them -- the scripts are right there.
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" began as a screenplay for Gene Kelly because I loved his films. He didn't do my screenplay, so I wrote it into a novel, which you can shoot right off the page.
Everyone complicates things. Universal bought the rights to "The Martian Chronicles" to do a new version of it. But there are 17 scripts of that, including five by me. They don't think I can write, you see. They've let eight years go by since our Mars landing. So if we don't hurry up, we'll be going off to Mars again before the damn film gets made.
4 OCTOBER 2006.- A FANTASTIC THEORY
ATLANTIS AND THE MAYA
In 1864, a French scholar and cleric named Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was studying at a library in Madrid when he came across a treatise that contained a key to the complex alphabet used by the vanished Mayan civilization of Central America. Thus armed, Brasseur set out to translate one of the few Mayan manuscripts that had survived destruction by sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadors.
As Brasseur pored over the elaborately embellished Mayan text, painstakingly deciphering its intricate symbols, he discovered the story of an ancient land that had sunk into the ocean after a catastrophic volcanic eruption. Finding a pair of mysterious figures that evidently corresponded to the letters M and U in the modern alphabet. Brasseur determined that the continent had been named MU.
Other scholar were skeptical; their attempts with the key produced nonsense translations. But French archeologist Augustus Le Plongeon, who had been the first to excavate Mayan ruins, used the alphabet key and other symbols from Mayan walls to come up with an elaborate account of Brasseur´s continent. According to le Plongeon´s chronicle, a rivalry between two brothers for the hand of Mu´s queen- named Moo - led to the death of one brother and a takeover of the country by the other. Just as the continent began to sink following these dramatic events. Queen Moo fled to Egypt. There, as the goddess Isis, she built the Sphynx and founded Egyptian civilization. Other survivors of the catastrophe on Mu escaped to Yucatan, where they wrote down their history and erected great temples.
Mu, which Brasseur and Le Plongeon located in the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean, bore a striking resemblance to Atlantis. Like Plato´s lost continent, Mu comprised ten separate kingdoms. And it had perished, according to the Mayan records, some 8,000 years earlier, at about the same time that, according to Plato, Atlantis was destroyed.
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As Brasseur pored over the elaborately embellished Mayan text, painstakingly deciphering its intricate symbols, he discovered the story of an ancient land that had sunk into the ocean after a catastrophic volcanic eruption. Finding a pair of mysterious figures that evidently corresponded to the letters M and U in the modern alphabet. Brasseur determined that the continent had been named MU.
Other scholar were skeptical; their attempts with the key produced nonsense translations. But French archeologist Augustus Le Plongeon, who had been the first to excavate Mayan ruins, used the alphabet key and other symbols from Mayan walls to come up with an elaborate account of Brasseur´s continent. According to le Plongeon´s chronicle, a rivalry between two brothers for the hand of Mu´s queen- named Moo - led to the death of one brother and a takeover of the country by the other. Just as the continent began to sink following these dramatic events. Queen Moo fled to Egypt. There, as the goddess Isis, she built the Sphynx and founded Egyptian civilization. Other survivors of the catastrophe on Mu escaped to Yucatan, where they wrote down their history and erected great temples.
Mu, which Brasseur and Le Plongeon located in the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean, bore a striking resemblance to Atlantis. Like Plato´s lost continent, Mu comprised ten separate kingdoms. And it had perished, according to the Mayan records, some 8,000 years earlier, at about the same time that, according to Plato, Atlantis was destroyed.
5 OCTOBER 2006.- THIS AND THAT
- Rumours and Rubbish.- "Mel Gibson is accused of faltering in his battle with alcohol addiction, in a forthcoming issue of the National Enquirer tabloid."
Gibson's spokesperson has slammed the story, telling MSNBC.com's The Scoop, "The story's not true. He wasn't drinking anything alcoholic."
We´re ´re rather fed up with rumours and rubbish, so…
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
If you share our opinion, please repeat after us: A HACER GARGARAS!! (Secret formula anti-idle-gossip).
Thanks.
- Rumours and Rubbish.- "Mel Gibson is accused of faltering in his battle with alcohol addiction, in a forthcoming issue of the National Enquirer tabloid."
Gibson's spokesperson has slammed the story, telling MSNBC.com's The Scoop, "The story's not true. He wasn't drinking anything alcoholic."
We´re ´re rather fed up with rumours and rubbish, so…
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
If you share our opinion, please repeat after us: A HACER GARGARAS!! (Secret formula anti-idle-gossip).
Thanks.
Gibson's spokesperson has slammed the story, telling MSNBC.com's The Scoop, "The story's not true. He wasn't drinking anything alcoholic."
We´re ´re rather fed up with rumours and rubbish, so…
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
If you share our opinion, please repeat after us: A HACER GARGARAS!! (Secret formula anti-idle-gossip).
Thanks.
5 OCTOBER 2006.- 2012
"APOCALYPTO"
"I just wanna draw the parallels. I just looked at it, and thought, we display that stuff here. I don't wanna be a doomsayer, but the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. So have fun!" MEL GIBSON
WHY 2012? A MESSAGE FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA
Different sources.
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As avid stargazers, the ancient Maya were keen to an astrological cycle we call the Precession of the Equinoxes. This is close to a 26,000 year cycle in which Earth transits through each of the 12 signs of the zodiac for about 2152 years each. Each of these astrological ages represents one month of the grand, Cosmic Year. Sumerians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Cherokees, Hopi, and Mayans refer to this same 26,000 year cycle in their mystical belief systems and each have developed calendars based on this great cycle.
The ancient Maya understood this 26,000 year cycle to be specifically composed of 5 lesser cycles, each 5,125 years each. Each of these 5 cycles was considered its own World Age or Creation Cycle. As depicted on the familiar, circular MesoAmerican Sun Stone, (often called the Aztec Calendar) each Creation Cycle is said to have been ruled and destroyed by one of 5 elements. Specifically, 4 Jaguar, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, 4 Water.
Our present great cycle (3113 B.C. - 2012 A.D.) is called the Age of the Fifth Sun. This time period is ruled by 4 Earth
In Mayan calendrics, the initial date that Earth entered the Fifth World was August 13, 3113 BC, written in Mayan long count notation as 13.0.0.0.0. Every day from that point was reckoned by the number of days passed since the event of this cosmic beginning point.
The coming end date of December 21, 2012 is also written as 13.0.0.0.0. in Mayan long count notation; just like the beginning date.
Scholar and author John Major Jenkins reports,"On 13.0.0.0.0, the December solstice sun will be found in the band of the Milky Way. We can call this an alignment between the galactic plane and the solstice meridian. This is an event that has slowly converged over a period of thousands of years, and is caused by the precession of the equinoxes. The place where the December solstice sun crosses the Milky Way is precisely the location of the "dark-rift in the Milky Way...'xibalba be' - the road to the underworld."
On the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun's ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy.
Jenkins further proposes that this grand cross in time is symbolized by the Mayan Tree of Life, found at the core of Mayan cosmology.
And so, here we are - currently living the last 7 years of both a 5,125 year Creation Cycle, and the last 8 years of a 26,000 Grand Cycle, the Precession of the Equinoxes
Why should we care about the Mayans today? Is there anything we can learn from them? The trees give us oxygen to breathe and help create the nourishing rains upon which we depend, sustaining life. We are missing these rains in places where the trees have been cut down or burned. Fires begin that nature can no longer extinguish. For the Mayans, trees were intermediaries between the physical and spiritual worlds, and absolutely essential to life. They believed that without the tree man could not survive and that "with the death of the last tree comes the death of the human race."
Maybe it is time for humanity to awaken into a true partnership with each other, with the Earth, and the Cosmos. By accepting this partnership we may claim our birthright and become Galactic Citizens who care for and sustain the planet, thus sustaining ourselves. This is clearly the challenge of our times. Yet, arriving just in time and on schedule is the Winter Solstice dawn on the day we may remember that we are truly Children of the World.
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"APOCALYPTO"
"I just wanna draw the parallels. I just looked at it, and thought, we display that stuff here. I don't wanna be a doomsayer, but the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. So have fun!" MEL GIBSON
WHY 2012? A MESSAGE FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA
As avid stargazers, the ancient Maya were keen to an astrological cycle we call the Precession of the Equinoxes. This is close to a 26,000 year cycle in which Earth transits through each of the 12 signs of the zodiac for about 2152 years each. Each of these astrological ages represents one month of the grand, Cosmic Year. Sumerians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Cherokees, Hopi, and Mayans refer to this same 26,000 year cycle in their mystical belief systems and each have developed calendars based on this great cycle.
The ancient Maya understood this 26,000 year cycle to be specifically composed of 5 lesser cycles, each 5,125 years each. Each of these 5 cycles was considered its own World Age or Creation Cycle. As depicted on the familiar, circular MesoAmerican Sun Stone, (often called the Aztec Calendar) each Creation Cycle is said to have been ruled and destroyed by one of 5 elements. Specifically, 4 Jaguar, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, 4 Water.
Our present great cycle (3113 B.C. - 2012 A.D.) is called the Age of the Fifth Sun. This time period is ruled by 4 Earth
In Mayan calendrics, the initial date that Earth entered the Fifth World was August 13, 3113 BC, written in Mayan long count notation as 13.0.0.0.0. Every day from that point was reckoned by the number of days passed since the event of this cosmic beginning point.
The coming end date of December 21, 2012 is also written as 13.0.0.0.0. in Mayan long count notation; just like the beginning date.
Scholar and author John Major Jenkins reports,"On 13.0.0.0.0, the December solstice sun will be found in the band of the Milky Way. We can call this an alignment between the galactic plane and the solstice meridian. This is an event that has slowly converged over a period of thousands of years, and is caused by the precession of the equinoxes. The place where the December solstice sun crosses the Milky Way is precisely the location of the "dark-rift in the Milky Way...'xibalba be' - the road to the underworld."
On the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun's ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy.
Jenkins further proposes that this grand cross in time is symbolized by the Mayan Tree of Life, found at the core of Mayan cosmology.
And so, here we are - currently living the last 7 years of both a 5,125 year Creation Cycle, and the last 8 years of a 26,000 Grand Cycle, the Precession of the Equinoxes
Why should we care about the Mayans today? Is there anything we can learn from them? The trees give us oxygen to breathe and help create the nourishing rains upon which we depend, sustaining life. We are missing these rains in places where the trees have been cut down or burned. Fires begin that nature can no longer extinguish. For the Mayans, trees were intermediaries between the physical and spiritual worlds, and absolutely essential to life. They believed that without the tree man could not survive and that "with the death of the last tree comes the death of the human race."
Maybe it is time for humanity to awaken into a true partnership with each other, with the Earth, and the Cosmos. By accepting this partnership we may claim our birthright and become Galactic Citizens who care for and sustain the planet, thus sustaining ourselves. This is clearly the challenge of our times. Yet, arriving just in time and on schedule is the Winter Solstice dawn on the day we may remember that we are truly Children of the World.
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