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Mesoamerican center of them. UV Knorozova RGGU

Smart Club Sergei Kupriyanov

invites you to a lecture you, June 3, 2010 at the lecture professor, Dr Galina Ershova

Ancient Maya: Myths and Reality of a great civilization

Lecture held at the museum of chocolate Teddy Bear at the address. Low Krasnoselskay dom 7 (entrance from the street. Lobachika b.1, travel to the station. Metro Krasnoselskay ") in the two famous confectioneries of" Confectionery Concern Babaevskiy "and OAO" Red October ". Registration by phone (495) 982-57-97, price - 500 rubles a tour of the museum.

Beginning at 18.00

About the lecture:

In recent topic of the Mayan civilization was particularly loud. The reason for this is "too in-depth knowledge" of astronomy, possessed by the ancient Indians, who "miscalculated" even now, to which we have to survive only a year and change. There was a lot of the most fantastic of publications that refer to "opinions of scientists" - and these publications shared by others, indulge in horror from the dreadful "prophecy". "Prophecies", which the Maya themselves never, however, did not.
But in reality, the Maya, the ancestors of those that still live in the territories in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, in the first half millennium AD achieved striking success in scientific knowledge in medicine, art and architecture. Maija invented mathematical zero many centuries before this became known to Europeans. Most surprising is that the zero mark was chosen image ... Cocoa! Maya erected the great urban centers of squares, palaces and pyramids and temples, which connect the paved road from the white stone. Maya painted exquisite pottery and figurines made of stone, creating monumental mural on the walls of buildings.
Maya created a letter, on which many surviving texts. But the most striking - the letter was sitting in Leningrad, to decipher our brilliant compatriot Yuri Knorozovu who have never attended the Maya lands.
After deciphering Maya writing all the study of ancient America took a different path - as was the first to hear the actual words of a dead civilization.
The most interesting were the texts that tell about the spiritual ideas of the ancient Indians. About how they believed in reincarnation and the return of souls. To learn how to interact with worlds of the living and the dead - for that there were special trained mediators - naguali. How was arranged this dual world and what place it occupied the famous Plumed Serpent, is still coming down the stairs of the pyramid in Chichen-Itse. To learn how to prepare "see" the priests, traveling through the worlds. About that. as the expected time of conception and birth of children. Much of the past and still now - in the form of some amazing stories and rituals.
Everything about this and many other mysteries of the great civilizations of the ancient Mayan tell the professor, doctor of historical sciences Galina Ershov, head of the Meso-American Center of Knorozov in the Russian State Humanitarian University. Planned a series of lectures on the achievements of the Mayan culture.