K'àak' Chi'

[BCSpace]

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A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden deep in the jungles of Mexico using a new method of matching stars to the location of temples on earth.  

William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known Mayan cities.

And then he made a startling realisation: the two appeared to be linked.

“I was really surprised and excited when I realised that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities,” he told the Journal de Montréal.

In hundreds of years of scholarship, no other scientist had ever found such a correlation.  

Studying 22 different constellations, William found that they matched the location of 117 Mayan cities scattered throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
When he applied his theory to a 23rd constellation, he found that two of the stars already had cities linked to them but that the third star was unmatched.

William took to Google Maps and projected that there must be another city hidden deep in the thick jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

The Canadian Space Agency agreed to train its satellite telescopes on the spot and returned with striking pictures: what appears to be an ancient Mayan pyramid and dozens of smaller structures around it.

If the satellite photographs are verified, the city would be among the largest Mayan population centers ever discovered.

It fell to William to christen the new city and he chose the name K’aak Chi, meaning Fire Mouth, and the teenager said he hoped to one day see the ruins with his own eyes.

“It would be the culmination of my three years of work and the dream of my life,” he said. He became interested in the Mayans after reading about their predictions that the world would end in 2012.

Reaching the city will not be easy. It is in one of the most remote and inaccessible areas of Mexico and an archaeological mission would be costly.  

"It's always about money. Expedition costs are horribly expensive,” said Dr. Armand LaRocque, a specialist at the University of New Brunswick.

Scientists said they were astonished by the discovery and that it had been made by someone so young.

“What is fascinating about the project of William, is the depth of his research,” said Daniel de Lisle.

“Linking the position of stars and the location of a lost city and the use of satellite images on a tiny territory to identify the remains buried under dense vegetation, is quite exceptional.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/canadian-teenager-discovers-ancient-mayan-city-lost-in-jungles-o/

Awesome find; loving Astronomy as I do.  Would like to see these Mayan cities on a map overlaid with the Mayan constellations if anyone can find something like it.

[longview]

Hoping this new location does not get looted by the neighbors.  Somewhere, somehow, we will find buried records.

[Robert F. Smith]

There is the world-direction & color template applied by the Maya to both Earth and Sky.

In their Understanding Maya Inscriptions, 2nd ed., Harris & Stearns discuss Maya astronomy and cosmology in ritual terms as applied to significant dates for rulers at particular sites (see Tables 7:1 to 8:1).  The rulers saw themselves as teaming up with specific gods to perform creation and other rites, which take place not only on Earth, but also within particular constellations (actually the Three Stone setting takes place in sky, earth, and water, the three domains of the universe):  The focal point of such ritual action was the Creator God and Goddess as the Peccaries (Gemini) along with nearby Turtle (Orion), and the Road to Xibalba (Milky Way) being the path taken by the dead to the next world.  Since Harris & Stearns are certain that such a template was projected onto the celestial vault, why wouldn't the reverse also be true?  This is not even to mention the importance of Venus or the Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions, since important Maya events were connected with such phenomena.

Likewise, in their "Maya Cosmology and Astronomy," Josserand & Hopkins have laid out very specific site plans which coincide with the equinoxes and solstices, as well as with other celestial phenomena.

It will be interesting to see whether this young boy's claims hold up under careful examination. 

[gopher]

45 minutes ago, Robert F. Smith said:

It will be interesting to see whether this young boy's claims hold up under careful examination. 

There's always someone who has to rain on your parade.  It's another example of the "experts" ruining a very cool story.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/did-a-teen-discover-a-lost-mayan-city-not-exactly/ar-BBsVfPd

[Robert F. Smith]

3 hours ago, gopher said:

There's always someone who has to rain on your parade.  It's another example of the "experts" ruining a very cool story.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/did-a-teen-discover-a-lost-mayan-city-not-exactly/ar-BBsVfPd

Trust but verify.  Hey, isn't that a principle of the Gospel?

[The Nehor]

When I read the OP I held a slim hope it was accurate but expected a single Google search would debunk it. I was right and disappointed.  

[ksfisher]

20 hours ago, gopher said:

There's always someone who has to rain on your parade.  It's another example of the "experts" ruining a very cool story.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/did-a-teen-discover-a-lost-mayan-city-not-exactly/ar-BBsVfPd

CNN is reporting the same thing.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/11/americas/mayan-city-debunk/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

[Robert F. Smith]

23 hours ago, The Nehor said:

When I read the OP I held a slim hope it was accurate but expected a single Google search would debunk it. I was right and disappointed.  

Say it isn't so, Joe.

[Robert F. Smith]

In the meantime, you might want to ponder Garth Norman's Izapa Sacred Space (2015), http://www.vgarthnorman.com/ .

Garth claims that Izapa was laid out as a microcosmic temple-center -- mapping man's journey through the heavens and constellations, along the Milky Way road.