Maya calendar explained by archeologist | Ed Barnhart and Lex Fridman

[@LexClips]

Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6vddmp9hNuMsJo Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: lexfridman.com/sponsors/cv8021-sa See below for guest bio, links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *GUEST BIO:* Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the ancient history of North, Central, and South America. Ed is in part known for his groundbreaking work on ancient astronomy, mathematics, and calendar systems. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: lexfridman.com/contact *EPISODE LINKS:* Ed's KZbin: youtube.com/@archaeoedpodcast Ed's Website: archaeoed.com/ Maya Exploration Center: mayaexploration.org Ed's Lectures on The Great Courses: thegreatcoursesplus.com/edwin-barnhart Ed's Lectures on Audible: adbl.co/4dBavTZ 2025 Mayan Calendar: mayan-calendar.com/ *SPONSORS:* To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts: *MasterClass:* Online classes from world-class experts. Go to lexfridman.com/s/masterclass-cv8021-sa *Shopify:* Sell stuff online. Go to lexfridman.com/s/shopify-cv8021-sa *NetSuite:* Business management software. Go to lexfridman.com/s/netsuite-cv8021-sa *AG1:* All-in-one daily nutrition drinks. Go to lexfridman.com/s/ag1-cv8021-sa *Notion:* Note-taking and team collaboration. Go to lexfridman.com/s/notion-cv8021-sa *PODCAST LINKS:* - Podcast Website: lexfridman.com/podcast - Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2lwqZIr - Spotify: spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 - RSS: lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ - Podcast Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 - Clips Channel: kzbin.info *SOCIAL LINKS:* - X: x.com/lexfridman - Instagram: instagram.com/lexfridman - TikTok: tiktok.com/@lexfridman - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: facebook.com/lexfridman - Patreon: patreon.com/lexfridman - Telegram: t.me/lexfridman - Reddit: reddit.com/r/lexfridman

[@ooo00OOQ]

The one in the thumbnail isn't Mayan, it's Aztec 😅

[@robertdeblois288]

Aztec sun stone

[@GizzyDillespee]

Well, it WOULD'VE been the Mayan calendar, if it wasn't for those meddling Spanish, and that stupid dog.

[@markusnank]

💀🦴

[@spacentime77]

It is “La Piedra del Sol”

[@SomeDumbFuck-f6d]

Aztec, Maya what’s the difference

[@Tygrus758]

On the note of Astrology, the diet of one's mother during gestation up until birth is, yes, unique to every mother, yet still dictated by the calendar. That goes to say that people born on specific days will have had mothers that shared access to certain foods simply because of the time of year they were carrying. This access to different foods will trigger different reactions within the cell building process of each human being, and those reactions will carry on consequences for the rest of that human beings life. The science that would be necessary to dictate how diet affects human destiny will not be available to us for another century because we are along now getting to the technology that could track a person from conception to death, and we would have to start measuring long before we will see any results whether for or against. The Maya were on to something! Something worth appreciating them for putting so much time in to try to understand.

[@mevinkoser8446]

Exactly. The point is that the Maya were understanding. Sympathetic resonance of form being created by information integrated over time.

[@djtall3090]

Fascinating. I never thought about diet, especially before modern times.

[@TheKazuluka]

Fascinating insight, thank you for this

[@Thugatron_]

Internet comments never fail to disappoint lmfao

[@otroflores91]

Do you have any examples of diet leading to certain predetermined jobs? Or can at least share something to look into , i.e. a book or research journals. Pretty interesting stuff.

[@grantyboy0311]

Just to be clear, that image used as the thumbnail is not a Mayan calendar. It’s not a calendar or Mayan.

[@lukeforks9134]

5:58 Why couldn't the calendar start from an annual solar observation - it doesn't have to be following each year day by day, it could start each year on a particular observation day. It would never be out of synch.

[@el_jefe509]

I love hearing our peoples city, Palenque! If you ever find yourself in Palenque you have to try the coffee!!

[@cornfarts]

Will do!

[@scottericson5347]

Cycles of 13 harmonize with sidereal and synodic periods of the main luminaries well. At the end of the day, it seems the celestial phenomenon was driving the system. It was the different celestial body's relitive drift that played a part in different counts and ultimate synchronization. They encrypted celestial movements/cycles into the demensions and orientation of temples and sacred objects, similar to day per inch. There is little difference between what they were doing and what was happening in Babylonia, Egypt, England, and Jerusalem. Building temples, sacrifices, kings, priest, sacred times and geometry, encrypted astronomical magnitudes into narratives and structures. Dimensionally, the Ark of the Covenant was a astronomical almanac, model of the heavens that when understood rivals anything the Mayans were doing.

[@markwiegard8384]

If born in a certain month your personality and behavior will be…. That’s possible to line people up with a month to believe it because of math. The larger the population the greater the possibility that a percentage of people will line up with their month’s stereotype. To include people adapting their month’s stereotype personality because it’s expected. I’m a Leo and Leo’s do this….

[@22spirals]

This has been bouncing around my head randomly for the past few days, seeing this video was a welcome surprise. So hey, I wanted to add something to the end here while you’re discussing astronomy.. Ed should go take a numerology course, or better yet just have a respected reader give him his full chart. Make sure it’s one that encompasses all 3 of your Birthdate, time and location. I read mine everyday and it’s jaw dropping almost every single time. I think it’ll give him some more ammo to work with. I’m super fascinated by all these ancient civilizations and the extreme knowledge they possessed. I just wish we could see more of it without the mass secrecy. Great channel, my friend!

[@TheTurbobond]

Get some caffeine bruh. Man it’s a good thing his guests are great

[@MHolla-f1j]

I only watch to hear who he’s interviewing.

[@patricktilton5377]

If the Age began on 11 August 3114 BCE -- the 1,137,167 day before the date 1 January 1 CE -- and if that cycle ended on 12 December 2012 CE (the 734,851st day of the Common Era, counting 1 January 1 CE as Day 1), then that 'Age' lasted 1,872,018 days. Divide that by 13 and you get 144,001.3846 . . . so somewhere Ed Barnhart has come up with the wrong starting date for the Long Count -- or else everybody else was wrong about 12 December 2012 CE being the end of it. 144,000 x 13 = 1,872,000. Going by 12 December 2012 CE being the last day of the Long Count, then there had to have been 1,137,149 BCE-era days, with the 1st day of that Long Count being 29 August 3114 BCE, or 18 days later than the BCE-era date he mentioned. The way we calculate BCE-era dates is by taking the 4-year cycle of 365+365+365+366 = 1,461 days and extrapolating it into the Past, as if the Julian Calendar was in effect. The years 3112-to-1 BCE represents 3,112 years = 3,112 x 365.25 = 1,136,658 days, or 491 days shy of the total number of BCE-era days to account for. The year 3113 BCE was a 366-day Leap Year, and subtracting that from 491 leaves the last 125 days of the year 3114 BCE. There are 122 days from 1 September through 31 December, leaving the last 3 days of August 3114 BCE, a month with 31 days total. Thus, IF 12 December 2012 CE was the final day of a 1,872,000-day cycle (i.e. 144,000 x 13), then 29 August 3114 BCE had to be the 1st day of that Long Count. On the other hand, if Barnhart is right about 11 August 3114 BCE being Day 1 of the Long Count, then the Last Day of the Long Count would have to have been 18 days before 12 December 2012 CE, or the date 25 November 2012 CE. Frankly, I don't remember ANYBODY ever having claimed that the scary day was supposed to fall in November 2012 -- EVERYBODY who talked about it said it was in December, so I think Barnhart gave Lex (and us) the wrong starting date for the Long Count. GOOGLE says that the date 11 August 3114 BCE is in the "proleptic Gregorian calendar" -- corresponding to the date 6 September 3114 BCE in the Julian calendar. Barnhart probably meant this "proleptic Gregorian" date, rather than the Julian Calendar date. Going by the Julian Calendar date 6 September 3114 BCE as Day 1 (there being 1,137,141 days from 6 September 3114 BCE through 31 December 1 BCE), then Day 1,872,000 -- the last day of the Long Count -- would have to have been on Day 734,859 of the Common Era, which was the 355th day of 2012 CE, or 20 December 2012 CE -- not the 12th of December, as others have noted. One other question: WHEN did the Mayans reckon the day had its beginning? At MIDNIGHT, like we do, following the Roman way of reckoning time? At SUNSET, the way the Babylonians did (and, later, the Jews)? At SUNRISE? Google doesn't help when I type in "Mayan Calendar day begins ends" . . .

[@mevinkoser8446]

What's your point?

[@theJellyjoker]

2012? That was Occupy, Obama's second term, the birth of Wokeism, the seeds of MAGA were planted. So much of our current cultural and political climate started then.

[@AZ-kr6ff]

Did you bump your head?

[@wstcstskirmish]

Cheese and rice my man

[@davidagiel8130]

The calander is the great year cycle of the 12 zodiac signs rising with the sun. Each sign takes 2,160 years. So, when the calander ends, it just starts again. The precession of the equinox.

[@grazielaferraz]

Interesting, thanks for this information about the Mayan calendar. In Astrology or natal astrology it is based on the monthly circles, the planetary influences depending on the position and aspects of those planets on the moment you are born, like a map or blueprint. Every person has a very specific natal chart, that’s why personalities differ from each other even when they share the same sun sign… each person has a unique combination of planetary influences, which is specific to the individual chart. You should have an astrologer on the podcast. Take care. 🙏🙏🙏

[@nickarcher9771]

Could the month you were born have an effect on your personality as a baby because cold months may make you colder as a person and being born in Spring or summer would affect your mood positively in the early development of your brain? Don't even know if that would lineup with the mayan calendar but throwing it out there.

[@joe4398]

Probably not unless you lived in the extreme of it I would think

[@MHolla-f1j]

That makes more sense than todays astrology.

[@theJellyjoker]

[7:40] 360 degrees in a circle so 360 days in a year. The ancient Egyptian calendar has 360 years and a 5 new years festival.

[@sandykr3380]

Same in India … lot of unqualified people masquerading as experts … 😂

[@theJellyjoker]

@@sandykr3380 Anyone can be expert, eben me

[@MichaelBuetKESE]

Was there a time long ago when the year actually WAS 360 days? Perhaps BEFORE the Younger Dryas or even farther?

[@damienwade7848]

Where they count 20-hour days?

[@emergentform1188]

How about the Mayan 9 step pyramids apparently chronicling the evolution of consciousness in universe? Would love to see a talk about that, thanks.

[@MikeOlin-f3u]

If you consider time and space to be one then aspects of astrology may make more scientific sense because specifically where you were born largely determines your fate and perhaps specifically when you were born determines fates/traits as well.

[@angelofbliss]

I imagine a ritual society would have a yom kippur or time of death for a cycle and happens to last the right amount of time before new cycle. The leap year might be hidden in there rituals. They were so smart and intentionally made the calander wrong or did something changed globally with out seasons and cosmic rotations? Very cool.

[@i_dont_live_here]

This is excellent.

[@intergalacticangler]

Could it be the planet used to spin a bit faster? Say maybe before the moon came? Or some other wild concepts?

[@P_equals_Plenty]

The moon came waaaay before the Maya lol

[@codyaguon6767]

You think life was here before the moon?

[@intergalacticangler]

@@codyaguon6767 I think it was for sure, but I imagine most of life would have been near the equator at that time, many cultures talk about a time before the moon.

[@intergalacticangler]

@@P_equals_Plenty hell I duno was just a question, but. Are you sure?

[@jesperhjensen1978]

He must be a flat earther...​@@intergalacticangler

[@mikemoore141]

If you close your eyes, Jerry from Rick and Morty

[@HarveyBlevins-i4h]

😂.

[@Lertifuse]

100%

[@zionthiem6343]

Yesss! I was wandering what character he sounded familiar too

[@MichaelBaker-b8i]

So true 😂

[@sometoxicooter5766]

Buddy kinda looks like em too 😂

[@freidrichnietzsche7851]

i always heard that venus has a cycle of 263 days as a morning star and 263 days as an evening star and their sacred calendar was designed around that

[@epoh8698]

There has been a copy of a maya calendar in our house for many years. Just because we like ancient history and art , But I' just wanted to say the thought of everyone doing what there spirit intended them to be doing would be very beneficial to moving the human race forward. But will never happen greed is always around the corner. Need that major reset that could happen anytime. Comets volcanos nukes.

[@tlatoanimachi]

Do you know where the sages were summoned to correct such calendar ?

[@alboe5]

Everyone doing what there spirit intended? Like a caste system? Who’s this spiritual advisor who tells people what job they get? Kinda sounds like communism. At least if you think about it. Mao idk just speculation

[@ianvelasquez2132]

Greed is not human nature. It is the most celebrated part of humanity under capitalism but that doesn't mean it's our nature. In other societies Greed was looked down upon and there were social structures that protected against Greed becoming anyone's "nature".

[@aidan2606]

Welcome to go 1st mate. Microwave full power

[@aidan2606]

I\Iuked

[@edydossantos]

Hey lads. Got a question to y'all. Libs also in your country put in their bios their zodiac and also pronouns such as they do in Brazil?

[@artstrology]

The twenty days precisely correlate with the 20 amino acids by function and alphabetical sequence. They also correlate precisely by function and sequence with the primordial elements Tin- Ytterbium. If the man is a scientist, why not solve the mysteries ? Well, because the church comes for your job if you are in academia,.

[@mechannel7046]

17:00 Maya astrology

[@MrCosmicVictory]

13 has to do with the lunar calender. how many moon cycles per year.

[@MichaelCobbs]

Creation of Humans in Maya Mythology The Popol Vuh, a sacred Maya text, describes how the gods created humans: The gods attempted to create humans multiple times, first using clay and then wood, but these attempts failed Finally, the gods successfully created humans using maize (corn) Specifically, the gods formed the first humans from a dough made of yellow and white maize mixed with water

[@luisvilla799]

Some are made of shit 💩

[@va804smoke]

Respectfully, read that back and ask yourself if that sounds true. I'm sure it was a process that involved some type of invetro fertilization...but its no way I'm made of bread...or whatever you said.

[@mevinkoser8446]

I suggest that we are made of reality and only being realised within ourselves as a being for matter of fact by being alive for a life over its lifetime. As above so below

[@otroflores91]

​@@va804smokeyou don't know what a creation myth is or just trying to be a wise guy?

[@va804smoke]

@@otroflores91 both.

[@RumSpence]

I think that as quantum mechanics is studied we'll find that signs actually do leave an imprint like a universe gps coordinate of probability, not to mention the specific sources, intensity, and direction of the energy when that imprint happens has to have some trend or regularity or it wouldn't be a thing. The quantum world is legit magic, they were smarter than us

[@AG-ur1lj]

Notice that the archaeologists correctly refers to ‘the Maya’ and not ‘the Mayans.’ There is no Mayan calendar, but there is a Maya calendar.

[@artstrology]

Our weeks and months are not a natural cycle. The gregorian is a labor and financial calendar. The 260 day calendar is a natural cycle that can be tracked, discerned, and proved. They didn't make it up. Many cultures had the 20 days. Chinese, India and Japan in the east, Egypt certainly had them, and as far north in the Americas as Cherokee have them. In the 260 day cycle, Jung and Freud are born on the same day and number 1 out of 260 shot. Tesla was born on the day of electricity Tijax, which is depicted in the mural for Tijax in the Dendera temple complex using the "light bulbs". Joe Rogan is born on Batz (monkey) and opens his show hoo hoo haahaa. In the solar year which begins on the VE and the Maya certainly know this, the ten day periods are deccans. In one deccan called Archer, you have Ali, Frazier and Foreman, and MLK all born within ten days. Those two natural discernible cycles work together. The Sunstone and the Dendera, one east one west, one female one male, one days one deccans. In the I-Ching the 20 days are the first 20 hexagrams, starting with Batz. In the 260 day, Belushi and Farley are born on the same day one number off. In astrology there is very little to correlate the profound similarities they had in life.

[@alexmontenegro9991]

I think the Norse also went by cycles of nine to line up with lunar cycles taking about as long as gestation.

[@TheHouseOfRonin]

Im glad this guy explained the Mayan 2012 meaning. I think about this often....they predicted the transition into this next phase for 2012...smartphones and social media really began to take off around 2011-12 and no one can deny that the world has been increasingly bizarre since then. ( yes, i know social media and phones were around before then but when it actually began to take over peoples lives)

[@djciregethigher]

Interesting point… wow

[@seba117]

It was also the time of the "Arab Spring" and all the mayhem that followed, ISIS, the migration waves and terrorism that transformed many European countries etc...

[@nelsondiaz9859]

Lex, when are you going to have graham Hancock on? Or Randall Carlson?

[@tlatoanimachi]

Ahhhh yes. This one is perfect. So where is it known that sages collected to correct the calendar of the Americas? Answer: Hue Hue Tlapalan - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jonOZ36bZsiBaKcsi=rhXOZWME9yRzuXb4

[@Aceshm]

18:32 lex your so well spoken. It’s amazing how sometimes one sentence can open your mind more than a whole conversation. 🫶🏻

[@jacobmartinez2732]

Tzolk'in Date: 8 Ix Haab Date: 17 kumk'u Lord of the Night: G7 Someone tell me where to apply on indeed 💀

[@Tepaneca]

These people want to teach Mexican history but can't even get the images right😂. "Never allow your enemy to teach your children"

[@Dovahkiin0117]

Bruh the archaeologist ain’t the one picking the thumbnails 🤣

[@BimmerBros]

To be fair he is not pretending to be teaching a formal class, puts caveats to where his scientific understanding of the subject becomes speculation, and he was not addressing “Mexican” history specifically. And way to go with labeling people you disagree with as “the enemy” gtfoh😂

[@Freddy2Rumble]

Calm your tetas raza. No pasa nada bro

[@Francisco_Manos]

260/20 (base count) = 13

[@annapeters6934]

OMG XX They simply recorded all they witnessed in the Skies above xx They were witnesses xx They actually accurately recorded each season we Expanded into 3.3 xx To allow us to appreciate we are currently Expanding into 13 right now xx embarking on the first 13th year of our 13th cycle of 3330 xxx

[@takionjose6657]

I like the sacred calendar, we should go back to that . Knowing the day u was conceived would be crazy 😂

[@catfishman1768]

This dude is a storyteller first and an archaeologist 31th

[@Awkward147]

The Aztec sun calendar explained correctly... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnjJdoZvnsaYkLM

[@kricketflyd111]

Like pi and phi these calendars sound dimensional. 🌐

[@jacobvanveit3437]

Hero twins?!?! Like Adam and Eve?

[@juniorramos1437]

"The ancient Mayans" Carlton Banks

[@theyouseless]

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

[@Peter-f2m]

Blue Cosmic Hand here

[@counterflow5719]

No lunar cycle accounting? That's hard to believe.

[@ericmurray2421]

Major x class flare left the sun in2012. It missed us by 2 days. Had it hit us, ball game and calendar right

[@patrickflug4605]

3rd Weinstein bro? Cool, im in. Whens he going on JRE?

[@djciregethigher]

360 maybe 360 degrees in a circle?

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

The creation cycles is the Matrix versions we're in

[@JamesDio-yu5yd]

They use time around them self, unlike us, we run a long with it?i

[@juliovalencia5858]

90 day cycle time 4 is your 360 days a year

[@_DEADED]

Seems neat n funny

[@thestonedandstripped]

Aztec calendar in thumbnail

[@luvcaty332]

Human gestation is 10 months.. It's 40 wks.

[@BackwardsR3LLIK]

The fertilization happens on the third week.

[@Vakator-29]

2012 😳

[@hansenleal]

ARCHAIX channel has Mayan calendar ending in 2046.

[@davidagiel8130]

Dec 21st is the winter solstice, not the end of the world. It is the death and rebirth of the sun.

[@ChillyJackFrost]

I was born on Cartoon Day.

[@RgZDonnerZ]

The 5th creation ist Internet and AI or what 🤔😵‍💫

[@davidagiel8130]

The hero twins... Gemini?

[@Dstealthsniper]

4:26 wooe

[@joeyrchapa]

If you fill up a glass with ice and it melts it doesn’t overflow. In this case fill up a “bathtub” with ice and it won’t overflow. 🙄 16:12 The “scientist” needs to go back to 5th grade.

[@robiking011]

So how did the december 21 2012 end of the world BS got started?

[@artstrology]

Western media placating the CC. Every chance the church gets, the church tries to talk about human sacrifice, and end of the world. I was a moderator on a 2012 site, and just kept repeating what the Maya were saying. This is one cycle studied for one purpose, found on one stone. As the tourism went nuts in Guatemala, some embraced whatever kept them coming. Always remember who burned and destroyed thousands of years of Mayan knowledge. the RCC.

[@jalamela1480]

it was the end of the old mexika and the start of the new mexika. It’s spiritual stuff.

[@letmeseeitbounce]

The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation by George W Carey and Inez Perry. You can thank me later.

[@danimart86]

That’s an Aztec calendar nimrods

[@ejshafer]

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@claudiajay8291]

Ed Barnhart could have said a lot more …

[@user-nc9pc3gr4c]

Why do people always have to say, "As a Scientist". It is so limiting to an individual.

[@keanugardiner7738]

They say it because that's a scientist's responsibility. I do agree it's limiting

[@Tepaneca]

Aztec calendar tatted on my back

[@richardel6943]

Actually, the world as we know it ends in 7 years! AOC said so! 😅

[@herb130]

Wrong calendar.

[@andrewroberthook3310]

We live in an electrical magnetic universe Just because you can't fully comprehend it Does not make it fairy tales It's as real as the ground you stand upon

[@bujinkanatori]

Does Lex always sound SOOOO tired?

[@annapeters6934]

Moses invented ACCOUNTANTS. EVERYTHING WAS ACCOUNTED FOR BEFORE THEN XX IT WAS EVERYONES AND THERE WAS PLENTY XXXX.

[@PasqualeRaso1975]

A Culture tuned to its Gestation Period!

[@jonwhite777]

I’m a moody Scorpio

[@JoeCharogoff]

I think days shouldn't be equal. Weeks should be equal. M-F are 22 hours. Sat is 30 and Sun is 28.

[@trevorhess5360]

The 5th creation was AI

[@timothysarkowski8348]

TimeS Tim S the T on the lake wall. Titticocka The watch sundial photo. Eagle 🦅 1/31/53 2/3/83 8/8/2012. 12/22/13 7/13/15 131313. It’s true. 2Timothy3. Ark ski

[@williammoran4898]

So what he's saying is only the Mayan recognized that the world exist in over lapping cycles..our cycle the earths cycle the cosmos cycle. When you consider time is space and it literally is affected just between the highest and lowest points on our planet it isn't really capable of determining time in space outside the earth or within ourselves...

[@tlatoanimachi]

Thing is, where were the sages convoked to, to correct such calendar? Please fact check, it was in Hue hue Tlapalan, aka North America Ohio Mississippi valley.

[@aidan2606]

I\I UKED

[@psychesonic1]

If he wants scientific evidence of astrology look at moon's effect on water. And we are mostly water.

[@Z1989ahmed]

So, the moon pulls on the water in our body, and we are good at different things?

[@217maritza]

Why not ask an ACTUAL Mayan calendar keeper? 🧐🤔

[@tombarcelona4177]

Except humans are pregnant for 40 weeks. Which is actually 10 months

[@kd0525]

Your mum

[@13sempere]

It is 10 months from conception to birth, for whatever reason the first month isn't counted.

[@jasonbrisendine3376]

I'm sure in ancient times it took them a month to realize they were pregnant. Much like present times.

[@7even7-7]

@@jasonbrisendine3376up for debate

[@SJ1989BA]

Wrong. 40 weeks from last menstrual cycle. Most fertile is two weeks after last menstrual cycle so really it is 38weeks. But even if it is 40 weeks, 40/4.345 (average weeks in a month) = 9.2 months. Science.

[@davidagiel8130]

To understand the calander, you need an astrologist, not an archaeologist 😂

[@jacksonsmith5490]

Intro way too long. I already know what I clicked on

[@linchen5129]

1st

[@PixelPhobiac]

Congratulations 🎊

[@BIGLAMP1]

​@@PixelPhobiacthanks for congratulating him 🎉

[@McREA958]

Great podcast! This guy looks like a chunky Tucker Carlson.

[@ejshafer]

Smucker Carlson?

[@josetrumpas8536]

18 x 20= 360 18 months of 20 days =360 They believe every years has 5 bad days there's your 365 days per year. He talks a lot of non sense

[@Insedio-b7]

For supposedly dedicating his entire life to the subject it seems like he really doesn't know anything about it. 🤔

[@JH3SH]

These comments acting like they have any singular shit of a clue as to what’s going on here must be fake. This man said we’re made of corn.

[@drstevej2527]

So you were relegated to a position in life based on astrology. I can’t imagine why they didn’t survive. Best of all many are still using it.

[@prudoctfiles]

They destroyed the culture but the people are still here

[@drstevej2527]

@@prudoctfiles No a tiny number of native peoples remain in the region and they are rapidly disappearing according to the scholarship. Those that continue to exist don’t live like their ancestors.

[@Tepaneca]

@drstevej2527 lmao what a silly argument. Ofc they don't live like their ancestors are we supposed to still be sacrificing people? The genetics still exist even though most of the culture was eradicated is what he is getting at.

[@drstevej2527]

@@Tepaneca That’s the point! 99% of the population no longer exists. The population that remains is diminishing and those that exist are not culturally what the Maya people were. Other than being genetically linked to the Maya they have been wiped out. There must be a text book or community college where you can audit these concepts.

[@TheSeanpatrickobrien]

gay

[@SomeDumbFuck-f6d]

You’re a homosexual?

[@barano9729]

Are you?

[@TheSeanpatrickobrien]

@@barano9729