Word: mayan
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What the archeologists don't know about pre-Spanish America dims about 20 centuries of history. Much of what they do know has been dug up with scraps of Mayan, Toltec and Aztec sculpture. Last week a few of the existing clues to the Western Hemisphere's rich, mysterious cultural past were on display in Mexico City...
...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...
This evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute for Geographical Exploration the Harvard Spanish Club will present "La Noche De "Los Mayas," a full length Mexican motion picture with English subtitles. The film deals with primitive Mayan life and culture. Produced in 1941 and starring Arturo de Cordoba, it twice won the Mexican Academy Award and was favorably received in New York. This is the first time it has been presented in Boston and if the experiment is a success the Spanish Club will continue to make top-notch productions available to the Harvard audience...
...under the dry, caked earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains of the Toltec capital. To complete its excavation would take at least another ten years. But the Tula find already ranked historically as the most important since Carnegie Institution scientists unearthed the famed Mayan temples of Chichen Itza in Yucatan 15 years...
...realignment of the picture-puzzle of ancient Mexican history. It proved that the harsh, militaristic Aztecs .earned most of their civilized graces from the gifted Toltecs they had swallowed up 400 years before Cortez arrived. It proved that wandering Toltecs had inspired some of the most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over whom he ruled deserved their reputation as the most civilized race that ever inhabited the sunbaked valley of Mexico...