Mayan Tablets Released by Mexican Government

This is really good news. Because just recently at a recent conference, Dr. Nassin Haramein gave a presentation with others on previously classified Mayan tablets found by the Mexican government. The government has now released some of the information for humanity, concluding that the events depicted in the tablet could either be an event from the past or an event to take place in the future.The information which has been protected for 80 years was expected to reveal the Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as “shocking,” also the information about Mayan contact with extraterrestrials has been awaited, this has now been verified.

I believe this is very important for humanity, not just for Mexico. And considering that this information has been protected for 80 years, and how important it really is for people to understand the series of events that are coming, and the consequences for all of us.” This is what they stated before the announcement to release this new information. (Raul Julia-Levy)

When asked if the release will involve aliens, mystical elements or doomsday scenarios that have fueled the popular imagination, scientist`s declined to elaborate on that point.

“I’m not allowed to speak about that,” he said. “Everything is going to come out in time, but I can’t comment on aliens or on 2012.

“I can just say that the Mexican government is preparing to tell humanity and the world things that are critical for us, for the way we live, for the way we’ve been handling the planet.”  This he said then, now it`s very much verified.

The tablet shows clearly a planet with some type of habitable atmosphere, several ships, an extraterrestrial being, and more. This could quite possibly be a message from the Mexican government in wake of the Mayan date December 21, 2012. In the tablet one can make out a ship headed toward the planet (Earth) following a comet or massive object as another UFO or ship tries to deflect the object. The UFO is emerging from the sun, this could signify a future change in the sun. What is most interesting is that, these images depict contact with another race of space travelers.

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Above: To me it`s clearly a UFO at the bottom of this picture. So either they are trying to describe that they have been here or that they will come here.

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Police Sergeant reports seeing three very tall blond haired humanoids!

Police Sergeant reports seeing three very tall blond haired humanoids – This Is The Silbury Hill Case!

I decided to sit down and take a real good look at a somewhat older case from 2009. The humanoids at Silbury Hill. This is a very interesting case when you start look into it carefully. Partly because the main reporter of the case is a Police Officer. First when I studied this case I thought that the Police Officer was the ONLY reporter of this event. But now I found out that there where many more witnesses. Why and how these statements disappeared I don`t know. Silbury Hill is also very mysterious on it`s own. Without strange beings walking around in it`s fields.

2009 Silbury Hill: The sergeant, who has not been named, was off-duty when he saw the figures standing in a field near Silbury Hill, and stopped his car to investigate. This was indeed a significant event that had occurred, and this report is indeed extraordinary and allegedly received the immediate attention, of a government organization to the home of the witness. To add also that several of people I’ve sent mail to can confirm to that they to saw these beings in 2009 out in the fields. So the Police Sergeant who filed his report was NOT alone.

This location is no stranger, to bizarre reports. The latest occurred 5.0 AM on the 6th July 2009, opposite Silbury Hill and a few hundred yards to its south-west, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. This is the same location where on the 23 May 1994, 4 researchers (including one nuclear scientist) visiting a crop design in this field, witnessed intense military presence moments before they each experienced 45 minutes missing time and within a short while a further period of missing time.  Each had red marks appear on their necks and had severe nose bleeds hours later. A full account is held in CPR Archive. This is also the site of a secret military surveillance during the same week as the 1990 Operation Blackbird. It was over these fields that the army filmed a large unidentified white orb. CPR has a number of very similar reports of entities in this exact field and those next door and will publish a full article in August when the details are fully known of the latest incident.

This latest bizarre event took place yesterday morning (6th) at approximately 5.0 AM, when a Wiltshire Police Sergeant was driving in his private car towards Marlborough on the A4 highway and about to pass Silbury Hill on his left. He looked to his right and witnessed three exceptionally tall beings inspecting the new crop circle which appeared there on the 5th July.

He stopped his vehicle and watched them for several minutes because they stood out as odd.  Each of them were well over six feet tall, each had blond hair and also they all were wearing one piece white suites, with hoods that had been dropped onto the back of their heads.

The design above is in the field adjacent to the design where this incident took place on the 6th. The design here according to some research indicates a solar event to occur on the 7th July, which did in fact materialize.

After a few minutes watching them, he said they were appeared to be examining the crop in the circle, he shouted at them from a distance of about 400 yards but they ignored him. And as soon as he entered the field, they became aware of him and ran at an amazing speed to the south, away from Silbury Hill. He said I recognized that I could never catch up with them they ran so exceptionally fast.  He glanced away for just a few seconds and looked back to find that they had vanished. He became very uneasy and left the scene. The police officer was also very aware of hearing a static crackling sound in the field and around him. He said as the plants moved around, he could see the movement coincided with the level of sound, as if the static was effecting the plants by moving them. He also started to experience a headache in the field, which became worse as the day went on and he could not shake it off all day.

The Police/Silbury Ground research being done by Andrew Russell: thetruthhides.wordpress.com Time this report posted: 12.55 am US eastern – 8 July 2009. (Awaiting further interview)

The Police Sergeant filed an official report, about seeing these three very tall blond-haired beings. Also Colin Andrews has an update on his High Strangeness Alert page. Are we on the edge of first contact? Alien Agendas have received several other reports, and I encourage others who have information to also please contact them.

The police Sergeant`s Report (summarized)

The Police Sergeant states he saw three beings walking around in the crop field’s at Silbury Hill. At first he thought they were forensic officers because they were dressed in white coveralls. He stopped his car and approached the field. The figures out there were all over 6ft and had blond hair. They seemed to be inspecting the crop. And when he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity. This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently close to where the noise was moving. He felt the hair on his arms and back of his neck raise up.

He shouted to the figures who at first ignored him, not glancing at him. When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running. He said “They ran faster than any man I have ever seen. I’m no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone. I then got scared. And the noise was still around, but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car. “For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn’t shift”

He also contacted his colleagues at Wiltshire Police and they released this statement. “The police officer was apparently off duty when this happened so we have no comment to make because it is a personal not a police matter.” On the night following the sighting, several residents of the area reported in seeing an unmarked Helicopter hovering for 3 hours over the field were the encounter took place, a sequence that has followed UFO and crop circle reports in the area with increasing frequency. The sergeant continues to remain anonymous.

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Haunebu flies in old ww2 movie!

While the American Government’s alleged knowledge of discoveries of UFO’s has long been known, The British UFO Files reveals for the first time the secret history of alien aircraft investigations led by the most powerful forces within the British establishment. The program explores hitherto secret departments within the Ministry of Defense as well as controversial claims made by those working within the government and military that the British government has long known about the existence of extra-terrestrial visitors. Despite consistent public denial of the existence of flying saucers by the MOD, it has always as a matter of course investigated sightings, ever since pilots during the First World War reported strange aerial phenomena.

Winston Churchill himself ordered investigations by the Admiralty in 1929 into such disturbances. Indeed, the British government began to formally study UFO sightings in 1950 following changes in public opinion fueled by flying saucer fictional stories serialized in British newspapers and magazines.

I’ve always wondered about the upbringing and building of the Haunebu Discs that Germany had at the end of WW2. Which was seized by Russian`s and American`s after Germany had surrender. They certainly must have captured a Saucer some years before this, and tried to re-engineered it. And they made it!

The SS Entwicklungsstelle 4,  was a development unit of the SS occult “Order of the Black Sun” was tasked with researching alternative energies to make the Third Reich independent of scarce fuel oil for war production.

Their work included developing alternative energies and fuel sources through coal gas-ratification, research into grain alcohol fuels, less complicated coal burning engines for vehicles and generators, as well as highly advanced liquid oxygen turbines, total reaction turbines, AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) motors and even EMG (Electron-Magnetic-Gravity) engines. And this fantastic group developed by 1939 a revolutionary electron-magnetic-gravity engine which improved Hans Coler’s free energy machine into an energy Converter coupled to a Van De Graaf band generator and Marconi vortex dynamo (a spherical tank of mercury) to create powerful rotating electromagnetic fields that affected gravity and reduced mass. It was designated the Thule Triebwerk (Thrust-work, a.ka. Tachyonator-7 drive) and was to be installed into a Thule designed disc. A Haunebu Flying Disc. Long before Russians or Americans had any knowledge about these things at all.

See Haunebu fly! Included in this video below, are also testimony`s from Colonel Halt, Lord Hill Norton and the strange story of Peter Horsley and “Janus”.

THE HAUNEBU GERMAN PROJECT – THE NAZI UFO – ORIGINAL GESTAPO FILM* – “DAZ NAZI UFO” (Director- Joseph Goebbels )

Haunebu ( Grey Falcon ) WAS REAL!

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THE HARD BRUTAL TRUTH!

The hard brutal truth is not always what we want to hear! But it needs to be said. All of our “forced on to the people” economic system is based on clean-cut DEBT, and without constantly continuing issuance of debt, the whole thing falls apart. The stinking system of ‘fractional reserve banking’ gives commercial banks anywhere in the world a license to literally create money out of thin air – and then charge interest on the money? they created. Fractional reserve banking is the cause of spiraling debt.

Of course all of this is just, paper debts and make-believe obligations. The money we all owed to the bankers by the government never existed in the first place. It’s just part of the stinking scam by which the bankers enslave the whole world, which is the real  essence of banking; to hold nations and people perpetually in debt-servitude or indentured service, with the government bribed to not take action to ameliorate the situation!

“This is the very essence of the banking industry; to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt!”

A biggest public campaign has started to abolish? fractional reserve system. Visit POSITIVE MONEY website and support the campaign.

And some people are really narrow-minded, as they buy the bullshit from their capitalist corrupt governments and actually believe that if socialism was introduced in the US or any other capitalistic controlled nation, it would mean less freedom or democracy? This is pure BULL! If the people REALLY owns the entire nation and all things belonging to it, where is the less freedom or democracy in that? Compared to that: a fat EGOISTIC Psychopath owns everything and you slave only for him?

The infernal stupid capitalism today has been forced on the people and depends upon waste and consumption and that people consuming up the resources of the world rather than using them responsibly. Goods are produced that are deliberately non-durable, non-mend able, non-up datable, with planned obsolescence – an appalling waste. The car industry alone wastes enormous amounts of raw materials. And we are all put in DEBT, so we have to work to be able to buy all useless Chinese plastic shit, forced upon us with the help of stupid commercials, running every five min, in the TV, Computer, Phone or Radio.

In this video, we focus on the essential views on money and banking system. Money as debt is presented in a fast paced and very entertaining way. Mixed with animated feature by artist & video-maker Paul Grignon. This video explains today’s magical perverse DEBT-money system in terms that are easy to understand.

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NSA Insider: You Are the Target: “They’re Pulling Together All the Data About Virtually Every U.S. Citizen in the Country”

Few Americans would believe that the government has the technological capability and wherewithal to monitor, track, log, and analyze the everyday activities of American citizens. The idea that the National Security Agency, an organization responsible the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, would operate on US soil to turn the surveillance apparatus on the people they are tasked with protecting has up until now been reserved for conspiracy theorists and Hollywood movies.

It turns out that it’s not a conspiracy, and not only does the NSA operate within the borders of the United States, they are assembling detailed dossiers on every single one of us.  William Binney, an NSA whistleblower who recently resigned his post at the NSA over its illegal domestic surveillance programs, notes that the agency is engaged in implementing a total surveillance net over America with the help of private businesses like internet and telecom companies – and their target is YOU.

Domestically, they’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you’re doing.

So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.

…from one company alone… they were sending, according to my estimate… I reckon there were between 10 and 12 [companies] that were participating… that one company was providing 320 million average logs per day since 2001.

As we’ve noted previously Everything You Do Is Monitored. The NSA’s technological capabilities far surpass anything that has ever existed. Not only is the NSA now building a massive surveillance facility in Utah capable of monitoring and logging multiple yottabytes (1 Trillion Terabytes of information) of data like emails, cell phone communications, text messages, shopping records and social network interactions, there are over fifty fusion centers across the United States where data is processed on a local or regional level:

All of this information will eventually be fused into one large database. In fact, the government has already setup well over fifty fusion centers around the nation. What goes on in these centers is kept strictly confidential, and there doesn’t seem to be any agency in charge of them, but we know they exist, and we know that their purpose is to acquire, aggregate and act on whatever information they have available to them. These are fairly new, appearing just over the last several years. But be assured that as processing power and software technology improves, so too will the surveillance capabilities of fusion like facilities, whether they belong to government, private industry or criminal industry.

Of course the NSA denies the existence of a spy center designed to monitor US-based communications and activity, but we already know from past experience that government denying something exists doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not real.

They are watching everything we do. For what reason? We can’t say for certain, but history tells us any time government(s) start making lists and collecting data it often turns into a mechanism of intimidation, control and a culling of those who are perceived to be acting against the state.

Our Republic is on very dangerous ground.

Mac Slavo www.SHTFplan.com for Ray Alex Web

Eastern Sea Anomaly Update!

The first article in this series we published last month, it was about a spectacular finding under the Baltic Sea. A dome, lying at the end of a runway. The more the divers from Ocean Explorer Team Sweden discovered, the more questions they revealed. This is now turning out to be a real mystical adventure.

On June 17, 2012, We published the first in the series Baltic Anomaly, about the Ocean Explorer from Sweden which went to investigate a strange dome-shaped disc 275 feet below the Eastern Sea between Sweden and Finland, lying at the end of what seems to be a runway 1,500 meters long. Lying on top is a spherical object and under it a pillar rising straight up from the seabed, 60 meters thick.

Scans reveal perpendicular walls and staircases inside, leading downwards, as if this is the top of an underground structure. The team came back with some fascinating results and promised to go back down. They are there now, fighting against the currents, the murky blackness of the waters and some technical problems and will come back to land on July 21, with more details of the main structure and another mysterious object some 200 meters away which looks like a Gothic church window. Technical problems seem to be a mainstay for those who approach the object, for on the first dive, everything stopped working in a radius of 200 meters around the object.

And of course the Americans and Russians are interested in this finding. According to Swedish news site Aftonbladet, the team is already worried that someone may have beaten them to the object. Team member Dennis Åsberg reportedly stated recently that Russians and Americans were conducting “military exercises” in the area. Ohm? how convenient!

Peter Lindberg drew a picture to explain the question how the circular object is attached to its foundation. “During the last expedition it was confirmed that there is a wedge formed gap between the upper part (the circle) and the lower part (foundation/pillar). However, if the two parts are completely separated or if the upper part and the lower part are the same object has not been clarified“.

The divers will come back this weekend with reports from the scientific experts on board the Ocean Explorer. Ray Alex Web will cover the event. Don’t miss this story. This anomaly is the gateway to where, when or what?

“When we went out and saw the walls which were straight and smooth, it was frightening, as in a science-fiction film” – Dennis Åsberg – Ocean Explorer Co-Founder.

http://www.oceanexplorer.se/

Ben McLeish – The One Planet Project

You have to listen to this with Ben McLeish , I recommend it with warmth. Very good!

Ben McLeish works in the library technology and information industry, focusing on search technologies and management systems. His work takes him across much of Europe, including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and the Nordics. Ben also lectures and educates on the causes and effects of culture with regard to technological development and use (or non-use), and the basis for dominant assumptions within the established social order.

Among the dominant themes are innovation, how society deals with human behavior (including reward and punishment), and what cultural values are needed in the emerging era of increasingly powerful and life-enriching technologies, as well as the possibly destructive uses thereof. Ben earned his BA with honors in English with a separate focus on Literary and Cultural Theory at the University of Warwick in 2002.

The One Planet Project

Ben McLeish of the Zeitgeist Movement UK drops by London Real to talk about the One Planet Project, how we have built a system that relies on scarcity, why corruption is endemic to that system, the 3 behavior’s you change right now to promote the Zeitgeist Movement, and why you’re working in a job you hate to buy shit you don’t need.

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Presenter for The Zeitgeist Movement covering culture, economics, with a current project on violence and the prison system.

• How did you first become aware of the Zeitgeist Movement, or the zeitgeist films? If the Internet, what were you searching for?
• Seeing Zeitgeist Addendum.
  How much do you understand about The Zeitgeist Movement?
• It is not so much the movement, but the underlying tenets and their respective trains of thought that need to be understood.
  have you any skills, training, knowledge or abilities that may be of particular use to TZM?
• No answer yet
  What’s your purpose of joining our Group?
• The methodology and reasoning of the solutions that were presented.
  What London Borough (or area) do you live in?
• No answer yet
  What Ben McLeish is saying about this meet up Group
• Very enjoyable! Always a fascinating conversation to be had.

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Oxford University to start serious hunt for Yeti using DNA samples from around the world!

This is good news, for all of us who do believe that Sasquatch, Yeti, Bigfoot is real and not a figment of the imagination. Now scientist`s will use DNA analysis to look for “Cryptids“  animals whose existence has been suggested but never proven. Samples of hair and teeth to be donated from around the world. DNA technology will “prove” if samples are new species  or related to Man. An Oxford college is to  analyze samples of Yeti hair and teeth in one of the most serious attempts yet made to track down the elusive and possibly mythical species. Wolfson college is asking for samples of hair and teeth of cryptids  unknown animals such as the Yeti  and is to use the latest DNA technology to analyze samples from around the world.

As part of a larger inquiry into the genetic relationship between our own species Homo sapiens and other hominids, we invite submissions of organic material from formerly not yet described species, or “cryptids” for the purpose of their species identification by genetic means,” says the college. Wolfson college is asking for samples of hair and teeth of “cryptids”  unknown animals such as the Yeti. Wolfson college is asking for samples of hair and teeth of “cryptids” unknown animals such as the Yeti  and is to use the latest DNA technology to analyze samples from around the world Donors will be able to submit hair and tooth samples anonymously  and are invited to submit samples, along with their own theories as to what species they might be. Cryptids are species whose existence has been suggested but never confirmed by science. The Yeti are among the most persistent cryptids, with myths about the creatures in regions as widespread as North America and Russia  and supposed sightings common around the world.

Below, A Spokane, Washington woman claims to have accidentally caught Bigfoot on camera while hiking in the woods.

“Spokane Footage” has been declared authentic! The Inlander had a team of 80 forensic videographers checking on the authenticity of this Video, and it’s real. But that doesn’t mean that the “Bigfoot” is real to. But on the other hand, it doesn’t mean that it’s not. And remember that nobody believed there was any APE bigger than a Chimp before 1902. Then the first Gorilla was discovered 17 October 1902, but many traces and track had been seen already since 1847.

So are these eyewitnesses seeing an apparition or is this creature real? Listen to the riveting testimony of those who have encountered the beast first hand and decide for yourself. Bigfoot or Sasquatch or Yeti always attributes from numerous of reports. “Theories as to their species identification vary from surviving collateral hominid species, such as Homo Neanderthalensis or Homo floresiensis, to large primates like Gigantopithecus widely thought to be extinct, to as yet unstudied primate species or local subspecies of black and brown bears,” said Bryan Sykes of Wolfson College, speaking to Wired.co.uk.

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Everything You Need To Know: The Economic Collapse for Dummies – Micro Documentary

This latest micro-documentary from Future Money Trends, narrated by founder and chief strategist Daniel Ameduri, highlights the inevitably of a collapse in the global financial and economic systems.

Taking into consideration key data points like demographics, consumer consumption, unemployment trends, government debt, monetary policy, and widespread manipulation, a frightening end-game scenario begins to emerge.

With rampant fraud throughout the financial system and price fixing of unprecedented proportions in global stocks, commodities, interest rates, business loans, mortgages and personal loans, it is only a matter of time – perhaps one to four years according to Ameduri – before all of the machinations engaged in by governments, central banks and their financial industry cohorts to stabilize the system does exactly the opposite. The panic of 1929 will be a walk in the park compared to the utter pandemonium we will witness as the entire way of life we have come to know over the last three decades crumbles before our eyes.

As Zero Hedge notes, The Economic Collapse for Dummies is “everything you wanted to know about the inevitability of a major economic collapse but were afraid to ask.”

[Watch the full video below]

It is likely that the entire financial system will collapse in one to four years. It is likely that the deflationists theory is right and there will be a collapse… Those concerned about a currency crisis and hyperinflation will likely have their conviction shaken to the core in the very near future.

We do not believe we will slip into an out of control hyperinflationary scenario. Instead it will be a deflationary collapse followed by a currency crisis. However, this will be a worldwide currency crisis. You won’t be safe even if you’re heavily invested in  Euro or pacific currencies.

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Soon the stock market will collapse; the volume is anemic and the entire rally we have seen is nothing more than a Fed money printing rally… There is no driver for jobs and no driver for a continuous bull market…. The game is up. The 401(k) experiment that started in the 1980′s will fail as portfolios collapse and everyone holding their funds realizes that all the buyers of the last three decades are now sellers.

…As selling pressure mounts, equities will crash. And when they do, so will gold and silver. The need for liquidity and the sale of stock will create a demand for dollars like the world has never seen…

…Of course, what is to follow is a massive flood into hard assets as the central banks around the world print on a global level – or as economist Mike Krieger calls it, The Big Print.

Between the fundamentals of the US economy being in shambles and the central banks printing, the perception and confidence on the US dollar will force a run on fiat currencies.

Forget about one trillion dollar deficits. It will take that just to help cover the mandatory spending. We will soon see two to three trillion dollar deficits. And, as the national debt soars past twenty, twenty-five, thirty trillion dollars… this type of parabolic move will unleash the fiat currency crisis hyperinflationists have been warning us about.

…Ultimately those investors who cashed out for the deflationary scenario will be holding worthless fiat currency.

Watch for the signs, because they should be apparent soon. In fact, we are already seeing global economic growth and consumer spending hitting a standstill. Once investors around the world realize that the market rally of the last three years is nothing more than a fantasy based on lies and skewed statistics, the run to safety will begin. This will put extreme pressure on the global financial system as a whole, as trillions of dollars exit stocks and traditional investment vehicles for the perceived safety of U.S. dollars.

But that perception of safety in US government based debt assets will be short lived. As we noted in Predictions of a Mad Tin Foiler, and as Future Money Trends outlines above, confidence in the US dollar will quickly be replaced with panic as the United States itself is unable to service its debt and meet the social obligations of an evermore dependent and dilapidated citizenry. Confidence will be lost.

Then, all hell breaks loose and we enter what we can only described as the ‘Event Horizon,’ a scenario which is totally unpredictable as our existing paradigm of spending and consumption falls apart, being replaced with riots, violence, starvation and bloodshed and the likely deployment of the United States military as a state of emergency is declared in major metropolitan areas across the country.

What happens next is anybody’s guess, but we can say with confidence that if you haven’t taken steps to prepare prior to the Event Horizon, it’ll be too late.

Mac Slavo www.SHTFplan.com for Ray Alex Web

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Ancient Mayan sun temple found in Guatemala

Archeologists have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Mayan temple dedicated to the “night sun” on top a pyramid tomb in the northern Guatemalan forest near the border with Mexico.

“This building is one that celebrates this close linkage between the king and this most powerful and dominant of celestial presences.” Carbon dating places construction of the temple at the early part of that era, somewhere between 350 and 400 AD, the archeologists said.

Archaeologist Edwin Roman posing in front of a base-relief depicting the ‘Night Sun’ found under a pyramid at the Zotz archaeological site, in the Peten jungle, 550 km north of Guatemala City.

“The sun was a key element of Maya ruler ship,” lead archeologist Stephen Houston explained in announcing the discovery by the joint Guatemalan and American team that has been excavating the El Zotz site since 2006.

“It’s something that rises every day and penetrates into all nooks and crannies, just as royal power presumably would,” said Houston, a professor at Brown University, Rhode Island.

Archaeologists say the temple was likely built to honor the leader buried under the Diablo Pyramid tomb, the governor and founder of the first El Zotz dynasty called Pa’Chan, or ‘fortified sky’. Mayan civilization, which spread through southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize, was at its height between 250 and 900 AD. Excavations by the Guatemalan and American team began at the El Zotz dig in 2006, but the temple wasn’t uncovered until three years ago.

Mayan masks were representations of Mayan gods , as well as part of a very sacred funeral ritual in the Mayan Classic Period from 250 to 900 AD. These were placed over the face of an important ruler when he died. Mayan masks endowed the rulers with the status of a divine being as the “Tree of the Universe”.

The funeral masks protected them while descending into the underworld “Xibalba” in order to defeat the gods of death and to be able to ascend as the Mayan “God of the Corn”.

It is ornately decorated with massive stucco masks, 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall, each depicting the phases of the Sun as it moves east to west, and a painted stucco frieze that the team described as “incredible”. And more than half the temple is still to be excavated, co-project leader Thomas Garrison of the University of Southern California told a press conference at Guatemala City’s National Palace of Culture.

“The temple probably had 14 masks at the height of the frieze, but only eight of them have been documented” so far, which is why excavations must continue, added University of Austin archeologist Edwin Roman.

This temple resembles the Maya city of Tikal. Which was completely covered under jungle, one of dozens of large cities scattered through present day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Southern Mexico.  The Maya civilization collapsed fairly rapidly around 1000 AD; it’s thought that over-population or ongoing wars between the cities hastened the end.

It wasn’t until around 1850 that this city was explored and became known to the wider world, partly because of the difficulty of reaching its location in North-Eastern Guatemala.  When explorers did arrive, all that was visible was huge mounds such as the one below, covered in undergrowth and large trees. Under the vegetation, however, the ruins were still in good condition, with even some wooden door lintels still well-preserved. Excavation and well thought out restoration work now gives a good balance between how the structures looked when rediscovered and how they looked when the city was still inhabited.

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