Quetzalcoatl

[Mott the Hoople]

What was civilized about human sacrifices? Moron.

Cant argue that point. Did you know that the Aztec Calendar was the most accurate astronomical calendar devised by man till the advent of micro-computers?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Of the ancient pre-Columbian civilizations, I have always found the Incas to be more impressive than the Aztecs and the Mayans.

On what basis?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I watched some of Apocolypto, but the blood and gore was just too much for my delicate sensibilities.

Gibson certainly took extreme liberties with historical fact but he got much right and his accomplishment in recreating a bygone civilization was remarkable.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Definitely the most land. What about the Toltecs?

Tough question. The Toltecs had long been an extinct Civilization when the Incas and Aztecs were at their height. We simply don’t know much about them other than the ruins of their impressive architecture. We don’t even know what they called themselves. Toltec is what the Nahuatl speakers (I.E. the Aztecs) called them.

I believe the Aztecs had the greater Empire in terms of Land area. They controlled, either directly or indirectly, most of modern day Mexico and even the other nations that existed at that time in Mexico, like the Olmecs, spoke Nahuatl and were subject nations to the Aztecs via military conquest. The Incas controlled most of the Andies region, a long but narrow region and the Aztecs and their subject nations had a larger population.

 

[Lightbringer]

Cant argue that point. Did you know that the Aztec Calendar was the most accurate astronomical calendar devised by man till the advent of micro-computers?

The Persians would like a word...

 

[Mott the Hoople]

The Persians would like a word...

I was wrong. It was the Mayans who created the most accurate calendar till modern times. They created the first 365.25 day calendar 1700 years before the Babylonian calendar which was a 360 calendar they created around 300bc.

It’s interesting that many view the Mayans as an extinct civilization though they still exist in Southern Mexico.

 

[Lightbringer]

I was wrong. It was the Mayans who created the most accurate calendar till modern times. They created the first 365.25 day calendar 1700 years before the Babylonian calendar which was a 360 calendar they created around 300bc.

It’s interesting that many view the Mayans as an extinct civilization though they still exist in Southern Mexico.

The Persians would still like a moment of your time...

 

[Grugore]

http://www.crystalinks.com/quetzalcoatl.html

FYI of inquiring minds.

Quetzalcoatl was not an Aztec God. It belonged to the people who lived in the area before they showed up. Tezcatlipoca was the god of war for the Aztecs. He and Q were bitter enemies, according to historical sources.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

The Persians would still like a moment of your time...

The Babylonians were Persians.

 

[Lightbringer]

The Babylonians were Persians.

No. Wrong time period, by a country mile. The Persians would like to see you in a dark alley.

 

[SouthernUnkleRitchie]

I was wrong. It was the Mayans who created the most accurate calendar till modern times. They created the first 365.25 day calendar 1700 years before the Babylonian calendar which was a 360 calendar they created around 300bc.

It’s interesting that many view the Mayans as an extinct civilization though they still exist in Southern Mexico.

Are they the ones in the "caravan"?

 

[SouthernUnkleRitchie]

No. Wrong time period, by a country mile. The Persians would like to see you in a dark alley.

I'd like to take you for a walk in the park at night.

 

[iolo]

I'd like to take you for a walk in the park at night.

Thumbsupkid - whatever our disagreements about other matters. Guille is correct here. Babylon was the most successful of a whole number of city-states in ancient Mesapotamia, finally conquered by the Persians. Read your Bible, mate: 'Mene, mene tekel Upharsin' - or 'Peres'- 'Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting. Thy kingdom is taken from thee and given to the Medes and the Persians'. That's how I recall it, anyway.

 

[SouthernUnkleRitchie]

Thumbsupkid - whatever our disagreements about other matters. Guille is correct here. Babylon was the most successful of a whole number of city-states in ancient Mesapotamia, finally conquered by the Persians. Read your Bible, mate: 'Mene, mene tekel Upharsin' - or 'Peres'- 'Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting. Thy kingdom is taken from thee and given to the Medes and the Persians'. That's how I recall it, anyway.

I didn't say he was wrong. I just wanted him to take a walk in the park, at night, with me.