And now for something completely different ..

[James Coplin]

And another thing (sorry but this stuff gets my dander up)...

The Mayan sites he's looking at are around 3,000 years old.  The Balinese
ones are from the 14th century.  In other words, temporally these things
aren't even connected.  Secondly, the sites in Bali are sacred Hindu
temples.  Thus, the imagery, iconography, architecture, etc. in Bali are
transplants from India.  Certainly there are distinct Bali influences that
merge with the Indian Hindi tradition but it is an alien transplant
none-the less.  So, why doesn't the author say that the Indians and Mayans
are connected?  Two reasons spring to mind.  First, because such a
comparison clearly holds no water what-so-ever even to a non-specialist -
there are hundreds of ways to poke holes in that theory. The second and
more likely explanation is that the author is basically an uninformed hack
who can't be bothered to even get the basics of his story right.

James R. Coplin

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> Subject: RE: And now for something completely different ..
>
> > Thank you, James, for getting some sense back into this discussion. :)
>
> It was an interesting article so, thanks for posting Jay.  But like
James's very
> well put observations, I was kinda thinking all the way through the
article
> "hmmm, square doorway in Mayan; square doorway in Balinese - wait a
> second! My doorways are square - fuck me, am I part Mayan/part
> Balinese?!!"
>
> Clearly Im being flippant, there were comparisons made that were eyebrow
> raising but the idea that this evidence has been supressed does not hold
for
> me.  If there is one thing that I would assume about your average
historian is
> that the way you make a name for yourself is you look for the big story,
you
> don't supress it as the article suggests..  Unless of course, you are
writing an
> article such as this one where you suggest that the world is not as we
know it
> and, your predecessors have supressed the evidence ;-)
>
> But it was fun and I will defo lookup Gerts extra links when Im not
getting
> badgered by Leah to finish a track..
>
> Paul
> London
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