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The myth makes bureaucratic inventions such as calendar, celestial order, and temple hierarchy appear divinely ordained rather than priestly inventions.
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The myth makes bureaucratic inventions such as calendar, celestial order, and temple hierarchy appear divinely ordained rather than priestly inventions.
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The Mayans are presented as one of the five earliest civilizations, with science, astronomy, mathematics, writing, pyramids, and a sophisticated independent calendar.
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Jiang says the temple structure had cosmological significance: its relation to the sun and calendar was less about practical timekeeping than connecting with an outer world.
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"Okay? So what's important to understand is this. He's doing this to the mother goddess. Okay? So not only is Marduk proclaiming a new..."
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"...each for the 12 months. Okay? So he's basically building a calendar. The idea here is that all these were bureaucratic inventions in Samaria..."
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"You need rivers in order to have civilizations. And you need natural boundaries like mountains in order to protect yourself from invaders. Okay? And..."
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"They had something called the Mayan calendar. And it's an astonishing achievement because back then they used 365 days. So the Egyptians were actually..."
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"Well, you needed something called religious devotion, right? Faith. Does that make sense? Okay? And again, throughout human history, we've seen this, right? So,..."
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"They knew a lot about the way the stars worked, okay? So, basically for them, this is science, okay? Today we say this is..."
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