Quote from: Bedeekin on December 14, 2012, 03:36:14
I meant in today we know praying to gods has nothing to do with crops... but everything to do with weather.
I know the Mayan's worship had almost everything to do with crops. the fact they lived predominantly in rain forests and had a god called Chak... with a huge hooked nose I might add... tells us this.
They also used a 360 day annual cycle... and spent the other 5 days hiding in case the world ended. To them it was every year.
They also used a HELL of a lot of Cocaine. They loved that coca leaf. Maybe why they were so paranoid.
360 hmmm im goin to have to look that up again i thought is was just off by 4 hrs i know for fact that they had like eh i cant think of the word right now but its a time in the calender where they kinda reset it or i mean get it back on track it was like every 50 or 100 years anyway about the cocaine lol they had to stay awake somehow at night

but i can agree that back then all they had was this mystical understanding of how the world worked n it was actually pretty accurate for their assumptions enough to be able to survive, the mysticism behind it was just a way to be able to unite their people and keep them calm or hype them up or even divide them, whatever was needed at the time depending on different social climates,
i mean cmon u know nothing of astronomy ur just a farmer tending to his crops so he can trade in the city for things he needs to keep his family alive and probably hopefully he can get his kids to be educated somehow by one of the high preists (which was and stilll should be an honor) anyway then one day a preist comes along or someone of upper authority and they tell you to sacrifice or to worship harder today orelse the sun will not recover and stay black,,, ha and a solar eclipse happens, id be shakin hard in my sandals eatin coca leaves prayin like a muslim and christian combined