May 29

Kali and Maya

I was thinking. Could be a coincidence the fact that there was a Maya civilization in Mesoamerica and the main Hindu goddess Kali, is also called Maya (the maiden aspect of Kali).

There are strong connections in the depictions and roles of Maya of India and Tlaltecuhtli, a major Aztec goddess. Both mothers of creation, represented with fangs (in southern India), tongue hanging, blood drinking, the little skulls, the hook like weapon that could be a boomerang in origin, central figure in Aztec calendar, etc.. Don't know nothing about the Aztec language so can't tell if Tlal or cuhlti could derive from Kali or Kylie. Not the first to be thinking of this, but i got more elements than this guy and especially the Maya link he doesn't mention.

Don't know if the syntagm "history is written by winners" is true, but certainly these days history starts to be written by strongly motivated engineers and hobbyists and amateurs while the academics get all the grants and grant each others' titles.

History cannot be seen isolated, or by countries or regions. Some things can only be explained and theories enriched by following the strong past global connections, like first thing that come to mind, the Silk Road and the huge trade between Romans and the Chinese with caravans that numbered tens of thousands of beasts of burden, etc..

What a sad "civilization" we are, we need theories to figure what we've done in the past and also theories (often called conspiracy ones) to figure what we're doing right now.