Mike Collins
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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Yeah, I mean, and as you go down, it basically says, you know, that as interest continued to build, the Yucatan government decided to promote the idea in order to boost attendance. So we end up right back at what we were talking about, this always being about pulling in a crowd, generating money. Was there a shadow there?
Yeah, but do we know that it was designed in the way that it was designed to reflect or to have a snake shadow creep down the stairs? That's pretty cool. And it definitely could have been that. But it seems like the intent behind it wasn't. I mean, where was the original idea coming from here?
Mexico City attorney Luis Enrique Aroche Flores saw a photograph of the shadow, began telling people about it and linking it with the god Kukulkan. If we did that today, you'd be called, by the archeological community, you'd be an idiot. Yeah, they tell you you're a pseudoscientist. So what is he? Right, right.
I'm not saying it's wrong, or that he's wrong, but... But this is seen one time a year.
drastically rearranged the exterior of the structure of Chichen Itza. But now it's this big thing because it brings in people, brings in money. But the archaeologists of the time even dismissed it because they admitted and knew that they had so drastically changed the exterior and recreated the exterior of the structure.
Yeah, no way of knowing that.
Right.
Correct.
There's absolutely no way to say that the... I mean, the first attempt at rebuilding the stairs with recycled stones was later torn out and new blocks cut for the stairs. What they're saying here is that rebuilding the stairs, they used recycled stone. What they're talking about is scattered stone in the area.
So they didn't use any stones that they matched up to, knowing that it went to a part of a staircase for that area. Later torn out, new blocks cut for the stairs. So the stairs that exist now... or cut blocks that they made specifically, which means they designed the new stair system there. Because they were cutting stone to place in that.
And it is a little depressing, because you walk up on Chichen Itza, and it's amazing, I've been three or four times to Chichen Itza, and it's a great site. And clearly it was an ancient site used for stuff, and you know, But what you're seeing is not what was the original construction.
but that's also, that's also assuming that they got the exterior shape down. Exactly. Correct. A hundred percent reconstruction. It absolutely is.
right yeah and it's disappointing it's sad it's sad when you walk up in something that's so breathtaking and the idea of it in your head is just this amazing thing and you realize that it's just a recreation i mean this the original structure is still there but if you removed everything
um you know getting to the truth of stuff isn't always just this is is pretty and that's what they're doing with these ancient sites is they're making them all pretty um but i think the better story and the greater truth is underneath all that you know the facade of all of it the exterior these things that they're wrapping all of these ancient sites in and it is unfortunate you know but
you know, tying it all back in with stuff like Long Yu and different things and stuff that's going on in China is to say that there's not a, you know, there's actively a rewriting of history going on. It's false. There is. Or at least an ignoring of a lot of things that may be pertinent to digging to some of those deeper truths about stuff, inconvenient truths.
And it is important, I think, to see these places for yourself. It makes a difference, changes your perspective. You learn a lot of things worth knowing when it comes to identifying stuff and keeping an eye out for things. And it is a process. It's been a process for me over the years.
You know, when I used to first go to all these sites and stuff, I'd try to learn as much about them as I could before I went. I wanted to sound knowledgeable and things on camera and talk about the history of them and stuff. And what I started realizing was that I didn't really agree with all of the history of it.
So it kind of started this going, well, I just won't talk about it, you know, at first. But I also noticed that I was, a lot of times because I had done research, on a site specifically, I was only focusing in on those things that were made really clear to me about the site of importance. And so a lot of times I go to sites and go straight to A to B to C.
And then I also realized I was walking past all kinds of intricate little details throughout these places.
And I find now that it's a lot better to, maybe I don't come across so much as like knowing the history of a site, but I think that's a benefit in terms of my behavior because I'm able to walk these sites with an open mind and kind of a blank slate and pick up on things that I would have walked right past before.
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