Andrew Schulz

Yeah, that's right.

There's a painting.

Well, there's an old black and white photo.

Yeah, that's what I saw.

And there's a famous painting of it, too.

Yes, this is what I saw.

Yeah, so it's just a massive hill.

Yeah, yeah, it's really cool, isn't it?

It's like, wow.

Well, I mean, yeah, Star Wars is inspired by Mesoamerica, like, completely.

The whole thing is.

The very word Star Wars comes from the Maya.

wait really yeah yeah so um this is what's crazy so you remember remember the rebel base on yavin 4 no like in the jungle um yes yes yes yeah the little uh oh the little guys are running around no that's that's the that's the rebel that's the that's the moon of indoor but the but the the base on yavin 4 is in it's in episode 4 or a new hope and um and it's basically we're like the

I don't even know, before they go blow up the Death Star.

That's where they're all at.

But anyways, there are Maya pyramids at the site of Tikal.

That's what's in those shots.

Well, the Maya city of Tikal was the very center of this huge Maya civil war.

But the Maya, the key thing about the scientific part of their civilization is that they're all astronomers.

So the name, through some way, the name of their civil war becomes the Star Wars.