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Monday, April 16, 2012
Maya Cosmology
In AD 775, the Maya lord K’ak’ Tiliw
Chan Yoat (Fire Burning Sky Lightning God) set up an immense
stone monument in the center of his city,
Quiriguá, in Izabal,
Guatemala.
The unimaginative archaeologists who discovered the stone called it
Stela C. This monument bears the longest single hieroglyphic
description of the Maya Creation Myth, noting that it took place on
the Maya calendar's
day 13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ahaw, 8 Kumk’u, a
date corresponding to August 13, 3114 BC on our calendar. This date
appears over and over in other
inscriptions throughout the
Maya world.
On that day the creator gods set three stones or mountains in the
sky after lifting it with the sacred tree of life, from the
dark waters that once covered the primordial world. These three
stones formed a cosmic hearth at the center of the universe. The
gods then struck divine new fire by means of lightning, which
charged the world with new life. The 5th
Maya era have begun on 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u. This cycle
will end in 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahaw 3 Kan'kin, or Dec 21, 2012 AD.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
An undistinguished comicbook adaptation of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? was produced. It has many problems, the main one, central to its failure is simple.
Above is a quote from the actual book.
Illiterate people shouldn't adapt books. Illiterate people should learn to read.
Comicbook stereotyping has rarely been as effusively offensive as the act of making the characters in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? heroic idealised superhero style figures. It isn't a superhero story, in any remote way. And even a casual, let alone detailed, reading of the book would impart sufficient information to do the comicbook properly.
That simple process completely eluded the producers of that comicbook.
It was doomed ab initio.
In the irregular light the bounty hunter seemed a medium man, not impressive. Round face and hairless, smooth features; like a clerk in a bureaucratic office. Methodical but informal. Not demi-god in shape; not at all as Isidore had anticipated him.
Above is a quote from the actual book.
Illiterate people shouldn't adapt books. Illiterate people should learn to read.
Comicbook stereotyping has rarely been as effusively offensive as the act of making the characters in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? heroic idealised superhero style figures. It isn't a superhero story, in any remote way. And even a casual, let alone detailed, reading of the book would impart sufficient information to do the comicbook properly.
That simple process completely eluded the producers of that comicbook.
It was doomed ab initio.
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