Today was our full last day to enjoy our vacation in eventful and beautiful Can Cun. We made it to the ruins of Chichen-Itza and it was real cool man.
We got to see a not so ancient civilization in ruis its pretty impessive. The Mayans had the largest stadiums where tribe leaders would watch competitions being played. Sacrifices in competition did not go to the winner in honor or the loser in shame, but judged by the tribes leaders.
The mayans also belived the sun was a god symbolized by an eagle, and the moon was the god of night symbolized by the powerful Jauguar.
The central pyramid was used for reading times of the year, and to let time know when spring and fall had arrived. The Mayan calendar was so accurate that it only needed to be adjusted evety few thousand years, as opposed to our calendar that needs to be adjusted every 4 years.
In addition to studying the sun and how it affected time, the Mayans could predict positions of planets visible to them. In 1990 or 91 there was a solar eclipse that was predicted by the Mayans and astronomers could see that the Mayans indeed were quite a civilized people.
This was quite an educational tour and beathtaking, espcially when climbing up the mail pyramid. The popular thought is that the steps were narrow because the Mayans were small people. It is believed that the Mayans forcing themselves to climb in humbled manner and not upright, because that would be looking the sun god in the face, and would be a sign of disrespect. The same holds true for the downhill climb.
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