Showing posts with label dwarves grasping for the moon. Show all posts
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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.

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. StumbleUpon
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