01-08-2018, 12:01 AM
watergaze wrote:
and there we were... just talking about how great it is when people don't think bad stuff about others...
Do you really consider yourself so much better than the people around here? What makes you 'serious'?
I have found that posturing is quite unhelpful. And looking down on others is quite detrimental to seeking knowledge.
"At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527-1546), Ix Tab, or Ixtab ([iʃˈtaɓ], 'Woman whose work involves the use of a rope'), was the indigenous Mayan goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to heaven. No certain depictions of Ixtab are known."
"It has been claimed[8] that the Pre-Spanish Maya never had a goddess of suicide by hanging, but that she was invented and kept alive to justify all sorts of colonial and modern evils. The practices of the Spanish inquisition headed by Diego de Landa led to an increase of suicides by hanging, so that Landa may conceivably have invented the story of Ix Tab conducting his victims to heaven to exculpate himself. Originally, Ix Tab may only have been a hunting goddess.[9] Nowadays, the sensationalist idea of a ‘cult of Ix Tab’ appears to be invoked by popular Yucatecan media to cover up the fact that Yucatan has a suicide rate far higher than Mexico at large, and thus to deflect attention from its possible social causes.[10]"
Don't worry about it, I feel pretty good about deleting my tapatalk account now.
and there we were... just talking about how great it is when people don't think bad stuff about others...
Do you really consider yourself so much better than the people around here? What makes you 'serious'?
I have found that posturing is quite unhelpful. And looking down on others is quite detrimental to seeking knowledge.
"At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527-1546), Ix Tab, or Ixtab ([iʃˈtaɓ], 'Woman whose work involves the use of a rope'), was the indigenous Mayan goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to heaven. No certain depictions of Ixtab are known."
"It has been claimed[8] that the Pre-Spanish Maya never had a goddess of suicide by hanging, but that she was invented and kept alive to justify all sorts of colonial and modern evils. The practices of the Spanish inquisition headed by Diego de Landa led to an increase of suicides by hanging, so that Landa may conceivably have invented the story of Ix Tab conducting his victims to heaven to exculpate himself. Originally, Ix Tab may only have been a hunting goddess.[9] Nowadays, the sensationalist idea of a ‘cult of Ix Tab’ appears to be invoked by popular Yucatecan media to cover up the fact that Yucatan has a suicide rate far higher than Mexico at large, and thus to deflect attention from its possible social causes.[10]"
Don't worry about it, I feel pretty good about deleting my tapatalk account now.