![]() ![]() ![]() And there it was, bolted onto the wall, a flat piece of off-white stone that most of us would skip right past in most museums. “Yeah, it’s upstairs,” yawned the docent, pointing up a floor. I found the general lack of fanfare around the tablets a bit odd, given the worldwide excitement around the Maya prophecy. The museum is open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday-thus I arrived first thing on Tuesday morning, just as the guards were unlocking the front doors. Due to rising worldwide interest in the prophecy, the stone tablets were recently moved to Villahermosa and are now on permanent display at El Museo Regional de Anthropologia de Carlos Pellicer Cámara (named after the Mexican poet and traveler who first discovered the inscriptions in 1958). That record is contained in Monument 6 from the Maya archeological site of El Tortuguero, located in the Mexican state of Tabasco about 30 miles southeast of Villahermosa. Despite all the speculation, urgent discussion and global hullabaloo around the so-called “Maya doomsday prophecy”, there is only one actual written record of such an event. ![]() All I needed now was to read the original doomsday prophecy that so many people are talking about.Ī good researcher always wants to get back to the primary source, which is exactly what brought me to the state of Tabasco and the vibrant city of Villahermosa. So far, my journey through Mexico has taken me to the place where the Maya calendar began, as well as the place of origin for the many myths about ancient Maya beliefs. Īll good rumors start with a whisper of truth.ĭiscovering that truth is the gift that travel brings, because nothing compares to gaining knowledge first hand, on site. ![]()
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