Alexis McLeod
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first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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Um there's there's this kind of uh older view that that Maya somehow disappeared or c there was a collapse of Maya civilization.
Uh it's been continuous.
Um
th until till until today.
Uh and the uh the region that's the Maya region is uh roughly in uh the southern part, uh the southeast part of Mexico, uh Guat all of Guatemala, uh Belize, and then the western parts of uh El Salvador and uh and Honduras.
Um there were a number of different uh cities in this uh in this region that um during the what's called the classic period of uh in uh
Maya culture from around the third century to the tenth century CE, um, a lot of these uh familiar features of of uh classical Maya culture, such as the focus on calendrics, um the construction of these um
elaborate elaborate cities, um and the kind of the idea of the ruler, um the various kinds of v famous, uh well-known cities like Tical, uh that's in uh that is in contemporary uh Guatemala, um these these uh became became central right in this in this period, right?
So most of the what I talk about in the book, much of it originated in the classic period um and in the pre-classic.
And there's also in the post-classic period a kind of continuation and development uh of these ideas.
And even in the uh the post-contact period after the Spanish um came in the in the 16th century, you still get kind of renewal, a renewal of Maya thought and uh different kinds of different ways of thinking about these um these classical ideas, um, which resulted in uh what what is what we see today.
certain kinds of philosophical and religious uh syncretism, right, that involve kind of additions of aspects of Christianity to to Maya thought, in which you get these really kind of interesting hybrids.
Uh
So the the
The um the languages, as I was as I was talking about the the the Maya people, the uh the languages of the these these texts, uh the texts that we have, uh there are four um codical texts that remain.
Um most of there were there were many more likely written, uh these bark paper texts, um, but most of them were lost uh for a couple of reasons.
Um so during the early part of the Spanish contact, the some of the um the Spanish destroyed the text
Thinking of them as kind of anti-uh Christian in some way.
But I think the importance of that, although many texts were lost in this way, the importance is probably overstated, right?
This idea that Diego de Landa, for example, is the infamous figure associated with this burning of books.
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