Dr. James Fitzsimmons

To make it even cooler, the glyphs here, they're in reverse, right?

This is designed to be looked at with a mirror or a bowl of water.

You're supposed to actually be in supernatural space.

So whatever you saw in that thing, right?

The Maya had this idea that there were mirrors and the mirrors were portals to other worlds.

And that there were things that were going on on the other side of the mirror, like Alice in Wonderland style, and you could access that stuff.

And so that's what this is.

It's actually showing you what's on the other side of the mirror.

It's really awesome.

Interesting.

That's how they would look at it?

Yeah, it would be right side up.

But the way that this particular thing was done, they put you in the building and everything was reversed.

So you're actually entering, you're supposed to be on the other side of the mirror when you get into the building and you're actually looking out at the regular world when you look in the...

in the mirror.

Interesting.

Yeah.

So as I said, these guys are probably high as, like they're probably really high.

Yeah, there's a lot of magic that's going on in the Maya area in the late classic period.

So in about 600 to about 900 or so, there's a lot of magical things that we know about that are happening.